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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. what else? by gshub77 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Pron of course just like everyone else.

  2. Big mailboxes.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    YAWN

  3. 100GB? by slimak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Isn't this starting to get out of hand? Seriously, who actually needs 100 GB or even 1 GB for email? Unless you send lots of pictures/movies/audio/.../ and use your email as a repository (probably not a great idea) anything over a few hundred meg seems overkill (my ~/.Mail is It would be interesting to see what the average GMAIL account size is. More interesting would be whether any of these companies would rethink these large, free email accounts of average users kept them 95% full. Seems that having 95 GB devoted (not just available) to each and every user would be difficult.

  4. 10 GB is free, 100 GB comes with $5 membership by $exyNerdie · · Score: 0, Redundant

    From http://www.Hriders.com:

    JOIN NOW!!
    free 10GB email account)

    List Any Motorcycle, Part or Collectible for only $5.00 Your Ad Includes 25 color pictures & runs until it sells! Free Membership with 100 GB Email Acct.

  5. Re:Ugh by Chiisu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    what is this sex you speak of? ;)

  6. 1 Terabyte = 1,024 Gigabyte (GB) not 100 by feross101 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is it just me or did no other geek catch on to this?