E-mail As the New Database · Slashdot Mirror

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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BBS? by th1ckasabr1ck · 2005-04-22 10:40 · Score: 0, Redundant

Zonk meant to type BBC...
Not 1Gig by FreemanPatrickHenry · 2005-04-22 10:41 · Score: 0, Redundant

Google's up to ~2Gig now. Just FYI.

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