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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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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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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.
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.
Uh, what? You want less space an a harder interface? Intuitive would mean that the functionality is relatively understandable and easy to use because the layout makes sense and is easily deductible. Why would you want something half as intuitive? Wouldn't that be the same as twice as hard?
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.
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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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.