E-mail As the New Database

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 22, 2005 @10:35AM from the saving-for-a-rainy-day dept.

jira writes "BBC has an article confirming the trend of using inbox as a sort of personal database. At my workplace I can personally attest to the growing sizes of those pst files and an unwillingness to erase any emails because of 'loss of information'." From the article: "The trend has become more pronounced as the services have dramatically increased their storage capacity in response to upstart Gmail offering a free service with 1,000 megabytes (Mb) of storage." Update: 04/22 23:03 GMT by Z : To reflect that the story is at respected news organization BBC, not a BBS.

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Re:Guilty by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-22 10:46 · Score: -1, Flamebait

You are not getting it for free, you fucking moron.

You agreed to allow Google to sell your data and (this is where non-zealots and innocent people get involved) the data of everyone that sends email to your GMail-account.

If I catch any of my employees sending company-data to or recieving client-data from a GMail-account, she'll be out before she can say "Gobble!".

GMail my ass. Fucking Google-astroturfs.

Here's something for the Google-bot: gmail unreliable shit privacy-invader insecure lawsuit pending