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The Downide of Your ISP Turning to Gmail

Posted by kdawson on from the Google-Apps-Partner-Edition dept.

SlinkySausage writes "Google is offering ISPs the opportunity to turn over their entire email operation to Google, with all customer email hosted as Gmail accounts. This would allow Google to grow its user base rapidly (Google is a distant third with 51M users compared to Yahoo's 250M and Hotmail's 228M). There are some obvious benefits to end users — Google is offering ISPs mailboxes of up to 10GB per user. APCMag.com has posted an interesting piece looking at the dark side of Google's offer. Not least is in its reinforcing of the attachment people have to their ISP's email address, making it harder to change ISPs if a better deal comes along."

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  1. What's a 'Downide'? by neoform · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dont shash eeditors use Forefox? its gut a bilt in spellchcker..

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    1. Re:What's a 'Downide'? by Joey+Patterson · · Score: 5, Funny

      I have a spelling checker,
      It came with my PC;
      It plainly marks four my revue
      Mistakes I cannot sea.
      I've run this poem threw it,
      I'm sure you're please too no,
      It's letter perfect in it's weight,
      My checker tolled me sew.

      -Author Unknown-

    2. Re:What's a 'Downide'? by sheriff_cahill · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why bother with spell checkers? They should just switch double the killer delete select all

    3. Re:What's a 'Downide'? by weighn · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is Slashdot. A spell checker is redundant and not needed. 7hi5 i5 5145hd07. 4 5p311 ch3ck3r i5 r3dund4n7 4nd n07 n33d3d.

      there, fixed that for you.

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    4. Re:What's a 'Downide'? by risk+one · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is Slashdot. A spell checker is redundant and not needed.
      And it's clear that you can't stand redundancy, right?
  2. Blogspam by The+Bungi · · Score: 4, Funny
    C'mon, how is this "dark". Nothing in TFA justifies the submission or the connotations it appears to convey. "Google might charge for the service", but all they are saying is it will be "affordable" and ISPs can request more information. Holy shit, I can see the evil oozing out of that one.

    "People will have to switch email addresses" Mother of god, someone stop this company. They will be the end of us all.

  3. Re:Thin end of the wedge by WannaBeGeekGirl · · Score: 5, Funny

    And what happens when Google rolls out services competing directly with ISPs?
    recursion and lawyers?

    two things that should not be in the same phrase...
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  4. Re:Thin end of the wedge by mrchaotica · · Score: 4, Funny

    recursion and lawyers?

    two things that should not be in the same phrase...

    That depends. Does the universe kill all the lawyer processes when it runs out of memory?

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  5. Re:Thin end of the wedge by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That depends. Does the universe kill all the lawyer processes when it runs out of memory?

    No, the lawyer processes just terminate automatically when the universe runs out of money.

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