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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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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.
Slashmail has nothing to do with Slashdot or OSTG.
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.
Their site now reads "free 10GB email account".
Make sure you check the "I agree to give away my soul" box.
No, I do that too. Of course, my school only gives me a few MB of space and I get 50 or so emails a day, often with attachments. I forward stuff to my Gmail account if I know I'll need to get to it when I'm away from my computer, and I back up my Thunderbird mail folder every few days.
Apparently you've never tried to cat /dev/random. That's going to take a looooooong time to fill all that space.
Your better bet is to use if=/dev/zero (much higher throughput), or take a small random sample and repeat it.
or use /dev/urandom which is psudo-random numbers but will give you as many as you want.
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.
You didn't read the article.
"Hellacious Riders' primary business is an online motorcycle magazine which publishes articles about motorcycles, lists classifieds, and provides access to a topic-specific search engine. 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, according to Jim Weiss, President of the iTrade Group which publishes Hellacious Riders."
Heh. Even .Mac upped their accounts from 15mb to 250mb. (shared with iDisk). Thanks a bunch Google.
Anyone with an archive of, say, video files on around 24 DVDs ... 100Gig
The site in my sig currently has 832 GB in 237 DVDs.
You would have to be a complete knob to keep anything important in a free webmail account.
*raises eyebrow*
1) Use GPG to encrypt your emails (using a web-to-imap/pop proxy from freshmeat.net, together with your email client of choice [mutt, pine, evolution, Mail.app etc]).
2) Get said proxy together with fetchmail and/or quick 10 min $script_lang script to suck it down and just back it up locally every now and again.
The site in your sig currently has nothing but a few dozen cheap referer-style links to pay sites.
http://www.empornium.us/
http://www.thehun.com/
http://www.madthumbs.com/
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