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100 GB Email Account
soccrates writes "An article on Toms Hardware describes a Californian company giving out 100 GB email accounts to its customers. They even extended a challenge to get the first user to completely fill up the account, the winner getting a 1 terabyte account !
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Nothing to see here, move along.
I think Slashdot could easily fill this mailbox. If everyone switches their email address to one of these mailboxes, the viruses and spambots would certainly do the work for us.
Pron of course just like everyone else.
Gmail account?
I can't even imagine how much time you'd have to spend finding unique porn mailing lists to get enough spam to fill one of these babies up. You'd see so much T&A that sex would be just... boring....
Click here or a puppy gets stomped!
YAWN
I'm sure I could fill that up with a simple script, but then again, I'm also sure that someone else has already done it... Oh well...
-Magiluke
Earl Grey, Hot.
It appears that Google has started the email equivalent of a penis contest. First they came along with 1 GB...then MSN with 2 GB...and now this.
You are allowed 500MB attachments so I assume you could upload 200 or so of them sequentially until you have filled up 100GB and then you win the 1TB mailbox. And then.... Profit?
http://www.busyweather.com/
1)Get account
2)Post email address to Slashdot, asking for any and all to send you random stuff
3)Profit?
Or should there be a ????? in there?
RoseColor red={0, 0xffff, 0x0000, 0x0000};VioletColour blue={0, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0xffff};find / -name *mybase*|chown you
But yes,the password needs to be unchangeable...
what is this, 1999 again? where is my $100k/yr entry level job???
I've only had my gmail account since July, but as of today I've hit the 10% mark, and I don't even send that much email - 99% of it is slashdot, livejournal or other bulliten board reply notifications - maybe 10 a day, and the occasional 2MB digicam pic from the long distance girlfriend.
Hopefully if my usage trend continues, there should be 100 GB accounts for everyone before my account completely fills up in 5 years here.
moox. for a new generation.
What's this cheap bikers shot at californians? I rarely see bikers around here, even at the hippie grocery stores they all drive SUV's and are talking on their cell phones.
100 GB email? That's so April 1st, 2004. How about coming up with a new gimmick? NOBODY is gonna need 100 GB for email!!
Quick, someone post their hriders email address. We'll do our part.
I'll sign up for one when I get home if no one posts a reply.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
Okay, 1GB was fine, a reasonable limit that was more of a marketing ploy than a palpable number for the average user. Soon, 2GB and 5GB email accounts were offered in response to Gmails initial 1GB. This was really pushing the limit of being reasonable. 100GB totally crosses the line. When the advertised size of email accounts becomes larger than most people's hard drives, there is a problem. This is getting absurd. Please stop.
Obvious is the answer: storing pornographic pictures (as e-mail attachments) of luscious lesbian women commiting erotic sex acts.
Storage requirements for pornography are (1) lot of space and (2) optional reliability. If the e-mail server failed and all the pictures were lost, there would be no problem. We'd just spent another 48 hours searching for them on the web.
Storage requirements for personal files or work files demand reliability. An e-mail server that offers free e-mail accounts is not likely to backup its data. "free" does carry a price.
"You'd see so much T&A that sex would be just... boring...."
Well I guess we know were your moniker came from.
Apple is FINALLY uping their .Mac e-mail space to 250M. I doubt that will get another $99 out of me but I think its interesting that in spite of the hype (reported here a day or so ago) about Hotmail finally rolling out their new storage, a later story (not reported here to my knowledge) has it that they (MS) are running into problems and putting many of the upgrades (mine for example) off indefinitely.
As I predicted when G-mail first came out the MS infrastructure is going to collapse under the weight of trying to keep up. Maybe they just need to BUY another company who can do this, as well as a lot more RAID storage. HP and Intel will be happy.
Isn't this starting to get out of hand? Seriously, who actually needs 100 GB or even 1 GB for email? Unless you send lots of pictures/movies/audio/.../ and use your email as a repository (probably not a great idea) anything over a few hundred meg seems overkill (my ~/.Mail is It would be interesting to see what the average GMAIL account size is. More interesting would be whether any of these companies would rethink these large, free email accounts of average users kept them 95% full. Seems that having 95 GB devoted (not just available) to each and every user would be difficult.
With 100 Gb, they can hardcode the "You are using 0% of your mailbox" message.
For the people too lazy to read the article, the link is here.. But the site's design is just the most horrible thing I've ever seen, and the email capacity seems to be only 10GB.
I would still love to see these idiots slashdotted. Go get em boys.
Step 1: Rip all three Star Wars and the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings Movies (yeah yeah, the third isn't out yet) to your HD.
Step 2: Mail copies to 25 of your friends with GMail accounts as attachments.
Step 3: Have your friends change each of the file names and mail them back.
Bingo! Instant excession of 100 GB.
Alternately, you could just post your e-mail address here and say something like "You wussy, panty-wasted Linux hackers couldn't spam-bomb my account even if you wanted to! Your hacking skills are pathetic and lame! Besides, everyone knows that REAL MEN use Windows!"
I figured that's good for getting mailed 500 full distros within an hour. That should do the trick. ;-)
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
I think we'll see the first unlimited e-mail accounts being offered very soon...
100GB is basically 'unlimited' to the average email user anyway. Now I'm just waiting for the next company to offer true unlimited servce.
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I've already abused gmail as a bootlegged music storage area using labels to organize things.
Since this lets you have 500 meg attachments, now I could share porn movies.
100 GB is not that much. So that spawns this next poll topic/question:
What is the total HD size you have under your control?
I'm sure it's > 100GB
http://hriders.com/
For those who don't RTFA
... their mail server is behind a 2400 baud modem.
Hurry! Sign up before the site gets slashdotted. {i have already got myself 10 GB space!!}
I have a few mailto links posted around and about to give the email address crawlers fodder. Getting the terabytes of spam is not difficult...the problem is that there is zero value to the actual fruit of the spam harvest.
I could easily fill up a 100 GB account. All I need to do is try to get as much spam to my account as possible, putting that email address on as many sites as I can think of.
Granted, this is assuming the mail account doesn't have any sophisticated spam filtering.
I could also just zip up half the files in my harddrive, and keep forwarding the message to myself over and over again.
This space left intentionally blank.
Piece of cake...is there a way to auto-forward my hotmail account? Should take about a week...
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell
I dunno about anyone else but I USE this stuff. I gave all my gmail invites to myself so I now have many Gmail accounts, which are all used for the same thing ... offsite backup.
.mac storage, mine has been upped to 1.2 Gb. Hooray!
.mac for all keychains (containing serial numbers, passwords and private banking details), plus current 'work' folder... then I have a Retrospect backup to a remote FTP server for my boot drive, plus a nightly mirror onto a second hard drive. You CANNOT have too much of this stuff.
The 100 G account would be great for backing up digital images, something that is extremely hard to do otherwise (bit rot on CDs, DVDs and even naked hard drives, which is what I use now). Yeah, I take a lot of pictures.
I just got notified that because I purchased extra
You cannot have too many backup strategies. I use
The day I walked into my office and my HD was dead, I saved the entire accumulated cost of all this by being able to boot up from the second drive within seconds and carry on working.
I'm not wrong. You haven't thought about it hard enough.
Bah, humbug!
Give me 100Mb of storage and an interface that is half as intuitive as GMail's is and I'll really be impressed.
ENDUT! HOCH HECH!
Achille Talon
Hop!
In order to attract interest, the company launched a 3-Gigabyte free email service a little over a month ago and since then has signed up more than 36 million users...
Another alternative is, of course, to post it on Slashdot. But the question that lingers, is how in the hell did a little unknown magazine end up signing up 36 million people?
Now I'm not a biker myself, but you'd think with that many e-mail addresses from this company I'd of seen it once or twice working in tech support...
Oh too easy! Just have someone email him the Longhorn ISOs. That should fill up 100GB real quick, and nobody has to get nekkid!
To the making of books there is no end, so let's get started
http://www.hriders.com/ the sidebar says that its a "JOIN NOW!! (free 10GB email account)" btw when you click it, they say its $5 for motorcycle advertisement (or something like that) and a 100 gb email account... I'm still not sure how a motorcycle site and a giant email service relate to each other...
Sounds like a good place to store backups.
All you'd need is a script to create & email entire backups to an address there.
"Nyquil - The stuffy, sneezy, why-the-hell-is-the-room-spinning medicine."
Even though 99.9% of the people will never come close to 100 gig thats going to be pretty cool if a bunch of people do. Even today 100gig is pretty large, even for the current hds out. If you manage to fill that 100 gig up with stuff that cant be compressed it must be pretty cool to know that you're using a good amount of some hd somewhere.
I need attachment size ~700MB for my, umm, "files" :D
Then I can access my "files" from anywhere :D
They even extended a challenge to get the first user to completely fill up the account, the winner getting a 1 terabyte account
What if I upload a 200 MB file and send to myself in email and then forward it over and over to myself until 100 GB is full. Shouldnt take more than an afternoon's work??
Just subscribe to every pron site, bingo you got mail.
How to win contest:
One post on usenet with your email address complaining about your small penis size. Then just sit back and wait.
What's the point of pretending these services are for webmail? It seems to be nothing more than a web storage service with e-mail capability.
From http://www.Hriders.com:
JOIN NOW!!
free 10GB email account)
List Any Motorcycle, Part or Collectible for only $5.00 Your Ad Includes 25 color pictures & runs until it sells! Free Membership with 100 GB Email Acct.
suso.org has already been doing this for 7 years for over 80 local customers. I basically don't have quota support in the kernel. So its not just for email. My philosophy is that if you don't give people a limit, they won't try to reach it. And guess what? It works. People don't abuse the service. They use it normally. A couple of users are exceptions and have over 1GB worth of email that has amassed over the past several years.
I'm getting ready to install a server with 200GB of home space, so thus its like I offer 200GB email accounts. Whenever I get close to running out of space, I upgrade.
Where are they getting all this cheap storage? Instead of giving me a 100GB mailbox (with annoying blinking GIF ads), how about they just send me a 100GB hard drive (and a bunch of regular snail-mail junkmail that i can just throw away)?
Yes, chide me, fellow slashdotters.. for I did not know that they are relying on sparse mailboxes.
This company would terminate the service (or file for Chapter 11) long before the millionth user took their first gig.
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Yea well I have 1000 MB account with Gmail....erm..wait....~thinks~ ~re-calculates the difference~ Oh...sorry, carry on.
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They even extended a challenge to get the first user to completely fill up the account, the winner getting a 1 terabyte account
spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, SPAM, wonderful spam.... Who'd have ever thought spam would get you a head in life?
"goodbye and hello, as always" ~Prince Corwin, from Zelazny's Amber series
When 10 GB email account is considered unfillable, so much that the owner is willing to give 1 server of 1 TB for the winner, the even better idea - to that owner and my fellow slashdotters ( if u wanna st art up a email service BTW },
would be to offer 1 TB space for all- that would really be unprecedented and gain the maximum publicity and no one in this world would probably use more than a few GB - and the owner wouldnt have to worry about providing 1 Tb since as and when a user signs up , 1 Tb space doesnt need to be allocated and can be scaled up as and when required.
i don't think this is a good scheme for stealing music, it's too easy to track it down who owns the server that's hosting all the warez and they'd probably tell real quick who's connecting to it, it's still best to just stick to 0-day ftpz
I wouldn't trust these guys to be around in six months. The site looks like it was designed with a Geocities easy-page-creator. Oh, and the first thing you see is a story about a Turkey Testicle Festival, complete with picture.
my password is private, but unchanged.
> An ad-free 100 GByte email account will be priced at $150 per year.
Seems conveniently priced at the price of a hard drive plus a decent amount of bandwidth, now if you are making an archive of quite a few mailing lists this may be worth it, however If I really needed this much space, I'd just host it myself.
Worst website EVAR.
Phillip
they even advertise a turkey testicle festival... cmon. please. slashdot this out of existence!
With a boasting such as: "Site hosted with 100% solar energy" Here's hoping the sun is still shining on that poor server's solar collectors. Especially since I just registered Fillme@hriders.com ;-)
I meant someone go SIGN UP for an HRiders email account... because that's the whole point; you've got to send mail to it to win the 1TB account.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
and just how long do you think this company is going to be around, taking care of your emails while promising everything to everyone?
I'll settle for a little less storage, from a stable provider with a sound business and IT plan, thanks.
Imagine how long it would take for ur account to fill up if you subscribe to porn sites. Who really needs that much space.
And the down side to this is what exactly?
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RumorsDaily
It appears that Google has started the email equivalent of a penis contest.
Bikers and Penis's --- they go well together now don't they? I remember a song saying something about "having big balls", and I remember people with mostly long hair listening to it also...
You just broke the law in step 2.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
http://shit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/30/0 01210
I just upgraded my home file server. 4 x 200GB WD IDE drives on a 3Ware card at RAID 5, giving me 540GB of space (each drive formatted down to 180GB).
Anyways, my pr0n drive alone was over 150GB (yeah, I know). All I'd have to do is bring the server into work, stick it on the T1, configure QOS on the router to give my box preference (good to be the admin), and let er rip.
Anybody know how long it would take to upload 100gb at 1.5mb/sec?
Hmm... 1 TB, eh?
I smell a Hellacious Riders File System module...
I think Google (or anyone) shouldn't have a problem just giving people "unlimited" email space (and then whacking abuser accounts who mount gmail-based filesystems to store terabytes of pr0n...). For legitimate users of the system:
1) It's text, compress it, save space.
2) If you have a large user base, chances are there are many duplicate emails floating around the system. Hash everyone's email body-content globally. Then when that stupid email gets forwarded to 6000 of your customers, it only gets stored once for each unique form it arrives in. Ditto for mailing list emails.
3) Make sure that your spam filter is really good, and especially that it never falses tosses legit emails, so that people trust it. Anything that's in the spam box gets autokilled in a week.
4) Limit attachments to reasonable sizes. You're trying to stop people from email-attaching a 700MB uncompressed cd rip, or whatever. Gmail currently limits the entire message, all attachments included, to 10MB in size. They do other stupid things too though, like not letting you send zipfiles... A better system that leaves more freedom for the user might be to say that all attachment types are legal, but if a message's total length exceeds 10MB, then attachments in it will be "flagged for deletion", starting with the largest attachment in the message first, until the number is under 10MB. These larger "flagged for deletion" attachments get forceably deleted from your email archives after 24 hours, or 3 days, or something of that nature. In this way you can still transport large files via email, you just can't archive them there.
Once those simple measures are in place, you can largely rely on statistics and reasonability. If a reasonably average webmail user actually received and archived over a gig of mail in a year under such a system I'd be impressed.
11*43+456^2
I can win the 1tb account by subscribing to all mailing lists of the world.
at the bottom of a few select /. ers posts...
Get a free rack of X Serves, Not a scam! Sign up now, offering 1TB Hellacious invite
Just for archiving important documents (I'm a student, no porn jokes!). But gigs, I don't know. I have a gmail account, but I still use my school's account they gave me. Never trust your hard drive for the important stuff, I always feel. So large email accounts are useful, but this is over the top.
That email is looking more and more like an attractive P2P interface for file sharing. I think this would be a convenient way to share files. Encrypt and send them to mailboxes, pick them up at your convenience.
While the base64 encoding isn't terribly efficient for space, an interesting characteristic of email is that multiple recipients at the same domain - say gmail.com, benefit from a single data transmission to gmail's server delivering the mail to several destination accounts. So for the first time we could have a P2P app with 'multicast'-like content delivery.
free the mallocs!
Up to today, Weiss has signed up 52 million users in countries - a number which he wants to grow significantly to be recognized as record: "We would like to be included in the Guinness Book of Records for the world's largest mailing list," he said.
Well, count me out. This is obviously a grab for attention, not to provide a legitimate service.
Tim Dorr
Owner/Manger
A Small Orange
You might archive stuff there but don't forget that attachments still count as email so the owners can still snoop and do whatever they want with your data.
I wonder if free e-mail providers are using compression to make the provision of free 1GB+ accounts possible. Most e-mail is quite compressable. The only problem I see would be the CPU overhead of the compression/decompression. I've seen SSL accellerator PCI cards and HTTP compression PCI-X cards but I don't think I've ever seen a card that can do offloaded gzip compression.
Chris
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /home
/dev/ad0s1f 31G 16G 12G 56% 58278 962072 6%
And one by one all other providers would follow suit.....
[ or worst if they cant cope up the smaller ones will close]
...if they aren'talready doing this. But from what I hear,text compresses fairly well. So... up the Gmail account quotas by compressing the text of the messages and you will have raised the bar yet again. On the fly compression should be a part of all mail filesystems.
Un-news
...didn't Richard Pryor do something like this in Brewster's Millions?
...an unnamed software company executive was overheard saying "1 GB ought to be enough for anyone." (A subsqeunt discussion was spawned discussing whether or not he actually said it.)
Does anyone know an address there? I'd gladly re-send them all the spam I get - that should fill the 100 Gb...
free the mallocs!
If you use our service, you'll get...one hundred billion GB of email!!!!
-- Fugacity: Confusing chemists since 1908
What Google has done (And this is clearly the proof) is complteley nullified the point of storage space. I can remember 3 years ago having a free 6 MB yahoo account. But now, everyone has been forced for the sake of compensation, to upgrade to 500mb+
Now, it is safe to say that for 99%+ of the population, a free account with half a gig of storage space is plenty. 100 GB is obviously the definition of "Overkill". So no longer is storage space even an ISSUE. Now when looking at email providers, we can judge them on
A. Interface
B. Spam Filters
C. Extra bonuses
D. Etc etc etc
Effectivley, Google has eliminated the need to choose email providers based on storage space, and has forced providers to concentrate on things that REALLY matter! (I dont know about you, but I HATE it when a spam email evades the filters! Every new REAL email, to me anyways, feels like christmas morning just not as cool)
Am I the only person left that still prefers to NOT leave email on someone elses server and POP it instead??????????
My GMail account is basically useless as is because I don't want to use the Pop Goes The Gmail Hack.
Well my .Mac account was upgraded to 250MB between webstorage and email today. Attachments were upped to 10MB.
I guess its not like I'm going to go over 250MB, and atleast there aren't bots (that I know of) combing over the keywords in my mail. Spam filtering is execellent as well.
I have had a Gmail account since approximately May of this year. In normal use, I have already filled up 12% of the inbox. I don't email huge photos or files around, I don't get spam in that account (yet), and I am already starting to worry.
1GB seemed limitless at first compared to my previous Yahoo! Mail account, but after not deleting any email for five months, it is beginning to show it's limitations. If my usage increases or stays the same, I will fill to capacity in roughly four years. Even less if I start emailing and receiving digital photos. My previous internet email address I had for almost eight years.
Who do you have to blow to get an invite?
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Any decent sysadmin can fill the mail account in 8 hours or less with a 10mbit connect. So I could do it in 2 hours... if I cared.
"Now to figure out what those bikers actually need all that space for...."
:)
to build the biggest SPAMTRAP ever
class he-man extends man!
How on earth could anyone possibly need a hundred gigabytes of remote storage! The only data formats around that have an excuse to reach that size are hours of hifi video or the transaction database of a large corporation. What possible use could an ordinary user have for it?
Seriously... How much space does your non-spam e-mail take up?
OK, now bikers have bigger email accounts than I do. They already have everything I don't, muscles, babes, big fast bikes, respect, fear.... But I am running SuSE 9.1 and that makes me cool, right? right? anyone?
Sola Deo Gloria!
1) Port GmailFS to new mail system /mnt/emailfs
2) mount
3) for a in `seq -w 1 100`; do dd bs=1024 count=1048576 if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/emailfs/bigfile.$a; done
4) 1tb offline storage!
5) Profit
if you RTFA, they want a whoppin 150$/year for ad-free 100GB.
To me that only makes sense for businesses, but then again, which business would need 100GB without being able to afford their own/co-located/hosted mailserver ?
I'd personally rather stick with gmail and use AdMuncher. Works like a charme.
DV video is approx 1GB for every 5 minutes. Fire up a capture session (even if it's color bars or something), slice it up and email away.
Bonus points if you have access to something that does even less compression.
I doubt my broadband provider would like me though.
I use Macs to up my productivity, so up yours Microsoft!
Fill My Box
Vote Quimby.
I visited the website and couldn't bare the horrendious design for more than 2 minutes, it looked like a redneck shit it out. I didn't sign up but if my email has to end in @hriders.com or even more stupid @hellaciousriders.com than that's just too much to bare. Chances are it's not going to be fast anyway.
Your Momma's so fat she makes emacs look like nano!
Their site now reads "free 10GB email account".
Make sure you check the "I agree to give away my soul" box.
Now to figure out what those bikers actually need all that space for...."
Bikers???? Where do bikers come into this?
I think you're confusing MSN with Yahoo! mail accounts for paid subscribers. Also Spymac offers at least 1 Gig free (check /. archives for more info.)
Personally I think they are realling in part on high compression ratios that can be obtained with text. .
Think about it , 1% of 100gb is only 1gb
With the cost of hard drive space that works out to slightly less than $1 (assuming no backups).
Considering the large amount of adds shouldnt be hard for them (so long as they limmit attachments hard core).
Shes got small tits, but her body aint that bad.
Sure, every-one signed up with GMail for the 1GB of Mail. But every-one I know who's used it, sticks with it for the GUI. It's so fast and easy to use. Thats the real power of GMail.
I live around Irvine and there are tons of bikers already. You spend an hour driving around here and you'll run into at least three different biker groups each with an average of twenty members. Its not like they'd actually use the account... they'd spend too much time biking...
~ nomes/berenelen/beren/bere/etc...
And a really clever one at that, dammit they beat me to it!
I have gmail, and I couldn't tell you what is so awesome either.
It has some fancy HTML, but it doesn't really add much to the site. It's a mess. It works I guess.
disregarding the law and everything, the maximum attachment size in gmail is 10 megabytes.
Upon visting the site http://www.hriders.com/ looking at the top left reveals you only get a 10gb mailbox not a 100gb as previously stated.
Have you metaroderated recently?
InnerWeb
Freud might say that Intelligent Design is religion's ID.
"Yes, but fortunately (or unfortunately?) penises aren't growing at the rate that mailboxes are. Size is good up to a point, but a 1Tb penis would make it hard to walk. It would have to be on a dedicated server, so to speak."
Ernie Smith, Don't be dragged down!
Increase your penile support appartatus (sic) 200%! All natural! ancint (sic) herbal tretment (sic) of Nigerian Princes!
Feeling so good natured I could drool
Sure, but only until somebody recodes the MyDoom virus to send out the Windows XP Starter edition as an attachment to every e-mail in lookOut. Now THAT would be an interesting project....*rubs hands with glee in anticipation*
My Favourite Meme
I dont think this applies to the email. But it shows up while signing up for email in terms and conditions. If they do intend to apply it for email, it sould ridiculous.
"
10. Proprietary Rights.
(a) By posting content on the HELLACIOUSRIDERS.COM Website, you grant HELLACIOUSRIDERS.COM a worldwide, royalty-free non-exclusive license to (i) host, use, reproduce, modify, distribute, transmit, combine with information provided by third parties, and publicly display such content on and through the HELLACIOUSRIDERS.COM Website, and in HELLACIOUSRIDERS.COM's promotional or advertising materials, and (ii) sublicense to third parties such content to the extent necessary for the creation and maintenance of, in part or in whole, such sites."
Python script to convert photos into "artsy" portraits: http://p2pbridge.sf.net/pyPortrait/
For the rest of us what counts is what is actually being offered to users at this moment.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
with 500MB attatchements, the piracy rings will love that for warez.
What is the size limit per email sent? If it's unlimited I'm pretty sure I can reach that 100GB plateau with my Jenna Jameson collection...
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This way, where ever you go, your tunage is on tap. It might takea while to DL, but so what! I know if my house was ravaged by some Tornado or Hurricane, and all my CDs were blown to flinders or washed out to sea, I would definitely appreciate the back up...
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
Or at least my girlfriend tells me I'm well above average...
But I'm already 8% into my 2 GB two months into the new expanded Yahoo. At this rate, I'll have used up my 2 gig at 26 months or so.
One part of this post is true, and one false. Can you guess which is which?
paintball
Internet email is starting to remind me of the way internet access was about a decade ago. At first it was AOL with 20 hours a month, then it was slowly upped, and eventually it was just "eh screw it, unlimited."
By the way, AOL's since fixed it, but for awhile the number of hours they gave away during their first month was actually more than a 31 day month contained. Not that their users were smart enough to pick that up anyway.
It's nice to see that storage is getting so cheap; I don't think it will be much longer before internet email has unlimited storage for free. If any, I think the extra cost will be based on features.
"There are no such things as mutual fantasies. Yours bore us and ours offend you."
- Bill Maher
It's not the size that matters... it's what you do with it!
email was never meant to be a means for file transfer. I wish people would send me links instead of huge attachments. (this is just one among other misuses of email)
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Gmail, Please. I bet it doesnt have 50 ads all over it no one but a 14 year old girl whould be interested in! Who needs a good gui?
Like the saying goes, never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes. -Pyrotic
Seriously... on their front page.
-Ted
-=-=- Quantum physics - the dreams stuff are made of.
The site has a story titled "26th Annual Turkey Testicle Festival" with a picture of a tray, half empty. http://www.hriders.com/freepictures.asp?category=S potlight%201
:-(
Now I'm assuming that the festival is to do with large avians, not the country, but its still quite disturbing.
Its always interesting when you see companies come out with ideas like this that are clearly not really a viable solution.
.tar.gz backup files. Works a treat im sure.
;0
I know that I am on several very very busy mailing lists that recieve around 7000 emails a week through. Even on several of these lists it would take me a years at least to fill up even 10% of the 100gb space. So let me ask.. Why would the average person want a 1TB email account.
Sounds like a good way to distribute warez and other pirate software. Just give your mates access to your email account. Perfect place to store all your backups as well. Maybe this is the solution we have always been looking for as a home user disaster recovery setup.
Hard drive just crashed. install the OS and download your
if even 10,000 people filled even half of thier space the company would be broke
How would anyone interested in turkey testicles even know what a gigabyte is?
So you think lying to people is a good business strategy. You'll only look a fool when you have to retract your claims when geeks start using the service as a virtual filesystem or whatever else they can think of using 1 Tb online storage for.
Common sense doesn't seem so common anymore, but foolishness abound. But I think it's always been this way though. Why not have some spine and integrity, and do good for your customers, not trying to cheat everybody for your own gain?
This is one of those ideas that necessitates the saying, "This can't end well..." In my mind's eye I see an entire server farm smoking and melting and the team from the TV show CSI walking in and going, "So what happened here?"
Questioning the use of a 100GB email space?
To backup my 100 gmail accounts, DUH.
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Back in the good 'ol days, there used to be a very active warez scene on AOL... it worked by taking advantage of the fact that AOL would keep one copy of an uploaded email attachment on their server, regardless of how many times it was forwarded.
What people did was break up files into 1mb zips, email them to themselves, and then be able to forward those emails to who ever wanted them. All being within the same email system, they arrived instantly. Bots were created to automate it and chat rooms were set up to facilitate requests from anyone. Those were the days...
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yeah cuz the following porn jokes were just so hilarious!!
If you like dead New Yorkers, thank Democrats.
Hotmail previously had 2 MB, not 1. Still pitiful, but you know...
How about in exchange for thie 100GB email space, they just give me the storage space delivered and I can use it locally? Ummkay
100GB will be enough for everybody...?
i live on an alternate planet
Does it have great search capabilities like google? Lack of good tool will render this monstrous mailbox useless.
Dear Sir
I was reading your offer of email account space.
Your offer:
1000000 bytes
What you CAN offer:
1024*1024 = 1048576
Dude, you short changed me by 48576 bytes.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT IS!!!!!!11!
Yours faithfully
Teh ZX spectrum users
looks like their site is already suffering from the now-infamous soon-to-be-included-in-dictionary term: slashdot effect. google cache is here
The registration page (that doesn't open up anymore) is here.
i live on an alternate planet
Just make your email account name "VoteForBush" or "BushForPresident" and I'm sure liberals will find a way to spamazoid the poor guy.
_lB_
I went to the site (www.hriders.com) that is offering the "100 gig" email accounts. Unless they're working in a base one-hundred system I'm pretty sure they're only giving away ten gig accounts. That is significantly less than advertised. p.s. Don't bother correcting my base one-hundred joke with your "math" and "logic". a.) I don't care, and b.) you got it anyway.
or else!
What about my 250 gigabyte hard drive? I could slap an email server on that and beat this. Also they're charging 150 dollars for 100g a year? I paid less for my hard drive.
Which leads me to my next thought, why not write an open source web interface and buy a static ip for your home (for us nerds) and a domain (most of us already have both), and then throw a hard drive on it (250 gig is affordable.). Put a webserver and the appropriate email server.... A lot of work at first but could be a lot easier to setup via rpm or something. Then you could leave your "server" on all the time and check your email away from home. No ads either.
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Reality is a slackware box running on a 386 tucked away in god's sock drawer.
I agree.
> because they don't really care for their customers, just to sell their product.
I don't think they don't care for their customers: the last time they polled them, they said "WE WANT MORE STORAGE CAPACITY" !
But the consumer isn't a complete idiot: the email storage capacity is now overshooting his needs. So his revendications don't stand anymore.
Every time this happens, the consumer's criterions shift: Google killed the storage capacity war for the Gmail-like's features to be the criterion that matters.
Companies still pursuing the storage war are generally well led and listen to the yesterday's consumer claims.
When they wake, they'll be a-drift.
Managing innovation is tough. Otherwise good managers used to not grasp it.
With such storage capacity, (1TB inbox, that's more then I have locally on my PC) it'd be superneat to be able to login on your 1TB space and use it as an external harddrive, saving all the personal bandwidth, which still isn't free.
After 15G/month it's over for me, and my broadband gets capped until the month is over.
It's like webfolders used to be, but bigger, and free appearantly. Is this the beginning of where people buy a cheap terminal machine with a silly browser and have an "online harddrive"?
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
I wonder if their EULA allows certain people to look at emails or large files, or if this company is owned or funded by one of the various MPAA/RIAA companies.
Then take said company and challenge people to fill up this enormous space. How do they expect you to do that? What kind of files take up that kind of space?
Movies, Audio, CD Images, Data Backup (No one in their right mind would trust this one to an email account)
Why get $10 on rental when you can pop someone for a couple thousand on copyright violation.
I'll make due w/ 100MB, just filter out the damn spam.
if 100 thousand people filled up 100gb out of the 60 million users...
100k x 100gb = 10 exabytes of space, which would cost about 50 million dollars for the servers alone at like 2k a server (yeah right)
Just went there and saw this...
JOIN NOW!!
(free 10gb email account)
That didn't last long.
So I'm thinking that these companies are all using some wild compression algorithms on these mailboxes in order to provide us with all this space, so that we really aren't using 1GB on GMail or 2GB on Yahoo Mail. Can't wait for the corruption to creep in. I wonder what Google's corporate policy is on buying systems with or without ECC?
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
I'm the Female Gmail Account Wh0re!
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Get them while they're hot!
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Be quick before they're gone!
- Leslea
It is just a marketing stunt by a motorcycle magazine! You think they have the technical talent to make it through a year of operation, or to deal with the spam and DOS attacks that such services draw? I would think such an email account was a lifetime deal since it would take me a lifetime to fill it up and I would deed it off to my grandchildren for all the heirloom emails it would come to contain. Google has that sort of staying power...I hope. Also, where in the article is any link to a page that would let you sign up for this service? Its one thing to get a market buzz by SAYING you will give out 100GB accounts [buzz being the clear motive for this stunt] and another to make it easy for large numbers of people to actually take you up on the offer.
I am claiming Copyright on this SIG so you cannot make a copy of it to rat on me to the authorities because it is also offensive. I ask you to engage your ISP's filth-filter if you are younger than 18. Between DRM and prudery, we will wind up filling our 100GB with blanks or the word "CENSORED".
So you wanna wag dicks huh? "Cheney, Cheney, Cheney!" Top that!
SLASHDOT: news for people who can't concentrate on work or have no life at all and got tired of yelling back at the TV.
The first who manages to port gmailfs to their site, and uploads the first 100GB of data to his gmailfs partition gets a free 1TB remote storage account?
;-)
;-)
Hmmmm.... Hmmmm.... Let's have a look at this gmailfs code again...
But - even if it's a 100GB, gmailfs over that alone could be very interesting...
Though I can't wait for the day, when we'll have the first gmailfs[gmail.com]+gmailfs[hriders.com] RAID-1 setup for backup.
What none of these providers are telling you is that 3/4 of that storage space will be filled with spam that you'll start receiving after they've sold your email address to the world to pay for it.
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
Considering that you can get a 120GB SATA drive for about $100 these days, it's not really costing them all that much (yeah... sparse, compression, all that goodness). And if Tom's Hardware is correct: "An ad-free 100 GByte email account will be priced at $150 per year", they'll even make money at those prices.
I think someone should come up with a 1TB email service for $99/year. Make everything RAID5 or RAID6, guaranteed backups, etc. etc. and watch the money roll in. By the time people start using up that much email, storage will be dirt cheap anyways.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
Sonny Bono owns you.
That is all.
I don't consider a site "user friendly" unless it has Dust Puppy on it. "Easy to learn" and "easy to use" on the other hand...
I wonder when they will be giving away t-shirts and candybars for me using their service.
Is it just me or did no other geek catch on to this?
Gmail's strength is certainly NOT its capacity, but how its fast interface, Labels, Conversations, and Search capabilities leverage that capacity. Mailbox size is really nothing more than an abused marketing point.
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
I've been having a 240 gigabyte e-mail account ever since I put two 120 gig drives on my mail server...
I need someplace I can put my spam./
It's panty _waisted_ as in your waist showing the evidence of someone who wears panties.
- Toby
Okay ...
... ... ... ...
;)
I went to the web site
I registered for the 100Gb account
I'm still waiting for my auto-confirmation
Now the site says
There's now a 10Gb limit !!!
I want my 100Gb's dammmmit
Cheers,
-- The Dude
Is Hriders.com going to be AROUND in five years, or have they overextended and set themselves up for a good, old-fashion dot-com crash? And will they take all of my emails down with them in a blaze of glory?
100 GB doesn't mean squat if they don't have some financial muscle behind them. Google, I trust to be around. Hriders.com, I'm not sure about.
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I think TSS viewers could do 100 GB in an hour or so.
In a night? Probably not without some Astroglide.
500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
Google's policy has been "you'll neve rhave to delete any email". I thought id' give it a go. I am on 5 high traffic MLs and a few others. Until now I had filters that only kept the messages that interested me. I thought "great, with GMail I can keep them all and use the search to find what I need if I need to later."
After only 2 weeks of forwarding all the email to my gmail account, I was over 30 MB. If I was to continue that trend, GMails "never delete" policy would have my account overflowing in under 16 months. I have had my current account much longer than that.
If I had a 100GB account, it would last me forever essentially ( 150 years or more ).
Some people get more email than you. deal with it.
I can understand average frustrated hotmail users jumping on Gmail and the like. I can understand storage abusers/warez types combing the internet for Gmail invites so they can store/share/distribute ISO/zip/tar.gz/key files.
But Slashdot users? Isn't everybody here like network administrators, programmers or Linux geeks? Or atleast MCSE's? Why bother with a free email with advertising? Set up your own mail server. Take the high speed internet you probably already have and an old PC, make it do NAT/DNS, get your own domain or DynDNS, install one of a hundred open source web mails. Give it 2 terabytes of storage if you really need that much.
Or are Slashdot users not Linux/MCSE geeks or admins?
Oz
I run a blog that talks about spam and related issues. When I pointed out Hellacious Riders in the past (they are the ones that are offering the large accounts), some readers of my site apparently tried to sign up and had issues with it and they feel that the site is a scam.
Since I don't believe they had money taken, perhaps it is personal info that is collected? Or perhaps it is just a way to generate traffic coming into their site? Or just a prank?
I don't know, I haven't tried to sign up myself.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
How hard would it be to upload your songs and make them streamable from the inbox?
If you could work out some authentication issues, you could even distribute a binary with your login info encrypted so that it can access, but not upload or delete, and then share it with the world. Maybe?
I've seen the app that lets you turn your inbox into a P2P app (sort of) but what about a stream?
I dunno. Email tech wizard I am not.
We don't even NEED 100gb or a terrabyte. Even gmail is a lot for me, but I use it for the slick interface. I know it's been said, but I could do with 640k.
I'm going to go create my own technology news site, with blackjack and hookers. You know what? Forget the news site.
I just checked the hriders site and they are now listing it as 10gb
Yes this will get people to sign up. It will get people to sign up accounts that will get nothing but spam sent to them to go for the big account. All that will be left 6 months from now are tens of thousands of accounts that were abbandoned that are getting hundreds of megs a month of spam sent too them...
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NOw, can someone e-mail me doom3? - oh, and the codecs to play gay nigger from outer space? -THNX (JUST KIDDING ABOUT DOOM3 I WOULD NEVER INFRINGE)
"You would have to be a complete knob to keep anything important in a free webmail account."
Not true.
You'd be dumb to keep something important ONLY in ONE such account.
I sometimes use free mail for redundant backups (for my digcam, etc.).
And the handiest thing about large free webmail isn't permanent storage, but rather the fact that it's easy to access and hard to overflow, when you're away for a while and unable to download to your local mailbox.
"easy to use. Thats the real power of GMail."
Well, that's one perspective.
I use it, but only for the size.
Yahoo is faster.
Lots of providers have spam filers.
Gmail's search will always be second-class without full nested/parenthesized booleans.
And I hate not having folders, with or without "labels".
And I REALLY hate how you have to open a conversation to see the individual mails.
I want to be able to view my inbox with one line per piece of mail.
And I want to be able to sort/reverse by size, date, sender, subject, etc.
There are some usages that CAN'T be done comfortably without those, even with searching.
This is insane. The only way to even get close to that size of an inbox would be a constant stream of huge attachments. Huge attachments are a horrible waste
of ressources and the worst imaginable way to transfer a large file because the base64-encoding blows up your attachment by 1/3.
Attach a 450M file to an E-Mail and you'll be sending 600M, 150M wasted.
Attach 1GB to an e-mail and you'll be wasting 333MB.
How can they encourage users to do such a stupid thing?
Don't they have to pay for their bandwidth?
You will save money on storage by compressing text to gibberish, such as turning "you" into "u".
Write a little script to just feed junk data directly into one of their SMTP servers. Upload a significant amount (say, 250MB) and then just use the service to forward the message to yourself over and over. The local-to-local delivery should hopefully be relatively fast compared to your upload speed, so you'll be able to make progress quickly.
Gracias. It's a bad pose for her tits, I know.
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1 terabite of email account??? is too much i think!, and 100GB too! who is gonna have 100GB of sheets in hes email!, now, if this email provider have the same bug than GMAIL (if you have linux, you can use it like virtual HDD), GO FOR IT! :D