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30Gigs Web Mail Launches Into Beta

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the the-who-with-the-what dept.

gaanagaa writes "Neowin reports, that a new web mail service launched today is promising to bring users an email inbox of 30gb." The original intent of 30gigs.com was apparently to create an "'All in one' site for the webmaster and avid computer users. According to the sites 'about us' page, combining personal file storage, GD2 signatures and anonymous email all in one service, which would be free." In their brief review of the service a Neowin user also offers a word of caution with regards to their extremely short terms of service and privacy policy, calling them "shady".

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  1. phffff.. 30gig, that's amateur mang by porksoda · · Score: 5, Informative

    1 terabyte, right here.

  2. Re:TOS by XaXXon · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just read their terms of service. It's almost all about cookies. They basically say how they use their cookies, that they aren't responsible for the contents of the sites their ads link to, and that you may get cookies from their ad provider.

    While not being a service I would want to use, they don't seem to be "shady" in that they are hiding anything, just that they do things you wish they wouldn't, but they're honest about it.

    This is, of course, assuming their ToS isn't an outright lie.

  3. 30 webdrive? by ZeroExistenZ · · Score: 4, Informative

    If there would be the ability to have a "webdrive" like there's available for google, this might be interesting.

    Otherwise, to keep 30G of chainletters, spam, and the occasional email seems like a waste of space. In the line of google's history, they'd come out with 50G mailboxes in no time to stay current and on top. ;)

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  4. Review from an actual user by nacs · · Score: 4, Informative

    I tried out this thing yesterday for a bit.

    Here's the problems:

    1) The domain name sucks. Who wants to be john@30gigs.com

    2) The interface sucks. Hard. It's about as plain as it can get (it looks like they're just using Squirrelmail with their own stylesheet).

    3) Their privacy policy is vague on what kind of information they share

    4) There doesn't seem to be any reputable parent company behind it meaning it's chances of survival are questionable.

    Overall rating: THUMBS DOWN.

    (I posted this review to Neowin yesterday BTW).

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