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E-mail As the New Database

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. props 2 the GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      • left handed people should all be made slaves for the genetically superior right handed race

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  2. Correction #2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Google never offered 1000 megabytes.

    They started at 1 gig.

  3. Re:Guilty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Flip your burgers and shut up.

    I'm not paying you 3 Dollar per hour to give me your insights.