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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 slyckshoes · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, but fortunately (or unfortunately?) penises aren't growing at the rate that mailboxes are. Size is good up to a point, but a 1Tb penis would make it hard to walk. It would have to be on a dedicated server, so to speak.

    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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      "You can't fight in here, this is the war room!"
    4. Re:*Sigh* by slarshdot · · Score: 5, Funny

      soon I will be releasing my email service which will allow u to store 1 million bytes!!

      muwhaha!!

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      I'm not out of order! You're out of order! The whole freaking system's out of order!
    5. Re:*Sigh* by Council · · Score: 5, Funny

      Clearly, the solution is 1TB of email explaining how to make our penises grow fast enough to keep up.

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      xkcd.com - a webcomic of mathematics, love, and language.
  2. To win 1TB by erick99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are allowed 500MB attachments so I assume you could upload 200 or so of them sequentially until you have filled up 100GB and then you win the 1TB mailbox. And then.... Profit?

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  3. Re:Ugh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't even imagine how much time you'd have to spend finding unique porn mailing lists to get enough spam to fill one of these babies up. You'd see so much T&A that sex would be just... boring....

    Amateur.

  4. Ugh-Fragile-this ego side down. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "You'd see so much T&A that sex would be just... boring...."

    Well I guess we know were your moniker came from.

  5. Re: by Fluid-X · · Score: 5, Funny

    With 100 Gb, they can hardcode the "You are using 0% of your mailbox" message.

  6. HORRIBLE Website by Grey+Ninja · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the people too lazy to read the article, the link is here.. But the site's design is just the most horrible thing I've ever seen, and the email capacity seems to be only 10GB.

    I would still love to see these idiots slashdotted. Go get em boys.

  7. Too Easy by Nova+Express · · Score: 5, Funny
    This is too easy to win, assuming you have broadband.

    Step 1: Rip all three Star Wars and the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings Movies (yeah yeah, the third isn't out yet) to your HD.

    Step 2: Mail copies to 25 of your friends with GMail accounts as attachments.

    Step 3: Have your friends change each of the file names and mail them back.

    Bingo! Instant excession of 100 GB.

    Alternately, you could just post your e-mail address here and say something like "You wussy, panty-wasted Linux hackers couldn't spam-bomb my account even if you wanted to! Your hacking skills are pathetic and lame! Besides, everyone knows that REAL MEN use Windows!"

    I figured that's good for getting mailed 500 full distros within an hour. That should do the trick. ;-)

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  8. What they didn't tell you is... by kylemonger · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... their mail server is behind a 2400 baud modem.

  9. 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.

  10. Re:Spam Harvesting by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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