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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 we'll see the first unlimited e-mail accounts being offered very soon...
100GB is basically 'unlimited' to the average email user anyway. Now I'm just waiting for the next company to offer true unlimited servce.
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I need attachment size ~700MB for my, umm, "files" :D
Then I can access my "files" from anywhere :D
suso.org has already been doing this for 7 years for over 80 local customers. I basically don't have quota support in the kernel. So its not just for email. My philosophy is that if you don't give people a limit, they won't try to reach it. And guess what? It works. People don't abuse the service. They use it normally. A couple of users are exceptions and have over 1GB worth of email that has amassed over the past several years.
I'm getting ready to install a server with 200GB of home space, so thus its like I offer 200GB email accounts. Whenever I get close to running out of space, I upgrade.
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I think Google (or anyone) shouldn't have a problem just giving people "unlimited" email space (and then whacking abuser accounts who mount gmail-based filesystems to store terabytes of pr0n...). For legitimate users of the system:
1) It's text, compress it, save space.
2) If you have a large user base, chances are there are many duplicate emails floating around the system. Hash everyone's email body-content globally. Then when that stupid email gets forwarded to 6000 of your customers, it only gets stored once for each unique form it arrives in. Ditto for mailing list emails.
3) Make sure that your spam filter is really good, and especially that it never falses tosses legit emails, so that people trust it. Anything that's in the spam box gets autokilled in a week.
4) Limit attachments to reasonable sizes. You're trying to stop people from email-attaching a 700MB uncompressed cd rip, or whatever. Gmail currently limits the entire message, all attachments included, to 10MB in size. They do other stupid things too though, like not letting you send zipfiles... A better system that leaves more freedom for the user might be to say that all attachment types are legal, but if a message's total length exceeds 10MB, then attachments in it will be "flagged for deletion", starting with the largest attachment in the message first, until the number is under 10MB. These larger "flagged for deletion" attachments get forceably deleted from your email archives after 24 hours, or 3 days, or something of that nature. In this way you can still transport large files via email, you just can't archive them there.
Once those simple measures are in place, you can largely rely on statistics and reasonability. If a reasonably average webmail user actually received and archived over a gig of mail in a year under such a system I'd be impressed.
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Am I the only person left that still prefers to NOT leave email on someone elses server and POP it instead??????????
My GMail account is basically useless as is because I don't want to use the Pop Goes The Gmail Hack.
you mean something like
for i in `seq 20`; do dd if=/dev/random of=file$i bs=5M count=100; done
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This way, where ever you go, your tunage is on tap. It might takea while to DL, but so what! I know if my house was ravaged by some Tornado or Hurricane, and all my CDs were blown to flinders or washed out to sea, I would definitely appreciate the back up...
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Yeah, they've forced other free e-mail providers to compete, and the consumers are benefiting.
What a rip.
Benefiting how? Would you really make more use of 100 GB than 1 GB? What they do is just increasing "the number that matters" to sell their product. Notice how they aren't at all adding any other of Gmail's features. That's because it was only the account size that got attention when Gmail was introduced, so they ignore other things, because they don't really care for their customers, just to sell their product.
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It still is only 2mb. Well, for me anyway. And I've had my @hotmail since about 1998.
No, you just have to be a normal (i.e., non-slashdot) user. People store anything and everything in their free email accounts, from email/web site logins and passwords to their only copy of their email/phone contact lists.
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Not so. Feed this spam harvest into the bayes classifier for SpamAssassin or another filter system and train it to recognise that as all spam. This will seriously increase the quality of it's spam checking in future. I fed about 12,000 into mine, the result of about five months worth of harvesting.
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What about my 250 gigabyte hard drive? I could slap an email server on that and beat this. Also they're charging 150 dollars for 100g a year? I paid less for my hard drive.
Which leads me to my next thought, why not write an open source web interface and buy a static ip for your home (for us nerds) and a domain (most of us already have both), and then throw a hard drive on it (250 gig is affordable.). Put a webserver and the appropriate email server.... A lot of work at first but could be a lot easier to setup via rpm or something. Then you could leave your "server" on all the time and check your email away from home. No ads either.
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Reality is a slackware box running on a 386 tucked away in god's sock drawer.
The problem is, one persons spam is another persons ham.
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
It all depends on perspective.
Of course, there are common things that neither party wants, but giving a one size fits all filter for all but the most obvious will cause false positives.
Don't you think the big mail companies would have sorted it out by now if they could? They have the largest harvest of spam around.
[I was going to stop here, below are just random ramblings]
Having said all that, I believe every person should be allocated a bloom filter with their mail classification preferences. This filter is used against the results of all the identification rules.
All the mail companies should accept this token and display mail which passes. Currently, I have 4 mail providers who deal with spam differently, I would like to setup one set of rules.
The good thing about using a bloom is that preferences can be merged increasing the effectiveness, for instance, a virus filter, a fakes filter, a childsafe filter, or an office filter, developers filter etc.
Of course, this way, we don't change the front end mailing system itself, and people who don't use this token are free to handle the mail however they like.
I'll stop wafflin now.
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Just went there and saw this...
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(free 10gb email account)
That didn't last long.
Gmail's strength is certainly NOT its capacity, but how its fast interface, Labels, Conversations, and Search capabilities leverage that capacity. Mailbox size is really nothing more than an abused marketing point.
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