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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'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...
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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.
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?
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Yes but how many services allow you to *send* 500MB attachments (excluding running your own mailserver). Then again you need to upload *100GB* which would still take alot of time none-the-less. Either way 100GB/1TB at that point everything is just gravy.
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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.
Send the email to your self, click on the "keep copy in sent folder" (Or whatever). So for every message you get 1 GB down (of course I haven't read the terms and conditions for the contest, but it seems like a posible solution, either that or get 2 addresses and send back and forth).
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.
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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...
This looks a lot to me like one of those thrown together PHP/MySQL web sites (that I'm sorry to say I've been responsible for at one time or another). It's also quite slow. If they can't handle a Slashdotting I wonder if they can handle all multi-meg photo messages that some people will be tempted to throw at it. Whether it's 1G, 10G, or 1T, it doesn't do anyone any good if the server is too slow to handle the traffic.
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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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.
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)
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.
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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could fill 100Gig in an afternoon
Sorry to spoil the fun, but you would sure need a heck of a lot of bandwidth to do that. Home DSL/Cable connections are de-facto excluded here.
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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.
Of course, there are common things that neither party wants
Spam isn't about what someone wants or doesn't want. It's about what's unsolicited. Yeah some people like looking at the pictures in their porn spam, but that doesn't make it any less spam.