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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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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.
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!
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/
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.
"You'd see so much T&A that sex would be just... boring...."
Well I guess we know were your moniker came from.
With 100 Gb, they can hardcode the "You are using 0% of your mailbox" message.
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/
... their mail server is behind a 2400 baud modem.
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
Imagine All the slashdot guys sharing all their interesting stuff!This email account could very well serve that purpose
Yeah but what would the rest of the 100 gigs be used for?
maybe 10 a day, and the occasional 2MB digicam pic from the long distance girlfriend.
Please post username and password for verification purposes.
Worst website EVAR.
Phillip
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.
soon I will be releasing my email service which will allow u to store 1 million bytes!!
muwhaha!!
I'm not out of order! You're out of order! The whole freaking system's out of order!
Clearly, the solution is 1TB of email explaining how to make our penises grow fast enough to keep up.
xkcd.com - a webcomic of mathematics, love, and language.
...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.)
If you use our service, you'll get...one hundred billion GB of email!!!!
-- Fugacity: Confusing chemists since 1908
And a really clever one at that, dammit they beat me to it!
Questioning the use of a 100GB email space?
To backup my 100 gmail accounts, DUH.
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Now for the next problem... ...just what size woman are you going to stick it into?
not into, through.
OTOH, each chromosome has ~150x10^6 nucleotide pairs, *23 chromosomes, *2 to convert from base 4 to base 2... 13.8 Gb = 1.725 GB in each sperm cell. If you've got at least ~600 sperm cells then you've already got 1 TB swimming around down there. And that's not counting the cells that make up the rest of the delivery system.
It would also need a dedicated client with a modified female port the size of a SUV. Which brings to mind a blue whale which I don't find appealing.
soon I will be releasing my email service which will allow u to store 1 million bytes!!
Can't imagine why anyone would need more than 640k!
Just another day in Paradise
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?
;-)
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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.
the site's design is just the most horrible thing I've ever seen
It's hellacious.