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100 GB Email Account

Posted by samzenpus on from the still-not-enough dept.

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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  1. *Sigh* by Pantero+Blanco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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. Re:*Sigh* by typhoonius · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yeah, they've forced other free e-mail providers to compete, and the consumers are benefiting.

      What a rip.

    2. Re:*Sigh* by Red+Alastor · · Score: 4, Insightful

      They are benifiting before they were getting 1 mb from hotmail and 4 from yahoo (6 for those who had an account since some time). Google with it's offer made all the other companies offer enough disk space for everyone.

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    3. Re:*Sigh* by suckmysav · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You would have to be a complete knob to keep anything important in a free webmail account.

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  2. Re:To win 1TB by OverlordQ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  3. A real use for this stuff by Deep+Fried+Geekboy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    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 .mac storage, mine has been upped to 1.2 Gb. Hooray!

    You cannot have too many backup strategies. I use .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 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.

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  4. What about the GUI? by Wizarth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  5. Re:Spam Harvesting by MagicM · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.