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Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the bigger-inboxes-incoming dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google claims that people are devouring capacity with photos and other attachments on its Gmail e-mail service faster than the company can add to it at its current pace. So Google said on Friday that it would increase the rate at which it is adding capacity to its web-based service. There's only one problem, Google's main competitors — Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo Mail — far surpassed Gmail this year with their own capacity."

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  1. Passed up, nothing by stonecypher · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yahoo! Mail went to unlimited like six months ago. Anyone still watching their mail space should focus their time fending off mastodon with their obsidian knives.

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  2. Re:hands up by Enderandrew · · Score: 5, Funny

    I haven't filled my inbox, but I use GMail to the Maxx!!!

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  3. it's true! by ClippySay · · Score: 5, Funny

    / It's true, people is attaching files of \
    | huge size! My back wire pains and my    |
    \ job insurance won't cover it!           /
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  4. Re:hands up by ukatoton · · Score: 5, Funny

    NOOOOOO! Leave my 3069 MB alone!

  5. Re:just one new feature by Duncan3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It takes at least 5,001 engineers to figure out how to delete attachments, and Google only has 5,000. So it's really just beyond them to figure it out. It's not like the code to do that is just laying around in a dozen open source packages or anything.

    I've known dozens of people what "worked" at Google, and they all say it's just one big party. The only people that work are the low-paid ad sales crew - the ones responsible for 99.9% of last quarter's revenue.

    If it doesn't sell ads, noone works on it.

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  6. Re:DVD service next? by th1nk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or maybe they'll send you hard-copies for free:

    http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html

  7. Re:hands up by SkyDude · · Score: 3, Funny
    hands up who here uses gmail to the max?
    myself after 2 years im only using ~500MB

    Well, maybe it's because you don't have friends or relatives that send you stupid videos and pictures.

    I regret the day I trained my mother-in-law how to attach things to emails. I may have to show her how to find things on Youtube or how to upload and link to them on Youtube.

    Or maybe just break her PC and tell her it can't be fixed........

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  8. Re:hands up by dgatwood · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone who looses. I'm not sure what they loose, though. Probably spam.

    Hey! Stop loosing your spam in my direction, you jerks!

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