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April 1st, 2004
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What, me worry?
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Gmail Anyone?
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April 1st, 2004
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OSNN Proxy
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Read that the other day, knowing my luck if I get an invite to try I probably will get a gig of spam to start me off.
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April 1st, 2004
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- geek -
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If you believe that you should try to fill there Lunar positions.
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April 1st, 2004
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We Speak Geek
Joined: July 2003
Location: Fredericton, Canada ex Norwich, England ex Hougang, Singapore ex Durban, South Africa
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Haha nice one Xie
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April 1st, 2004
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Secret Goat Fetish
Joined: June 2002
Location: Dorset, England Posts: More Than You
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:d
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April 1st, 2004
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OSNN Advanced
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I doubt this 1Gb allocation will hold when the trial stage ends and more and more users sign up for the email service. Most probably in twelve months time, they'll lower the storage space to around 500mb.
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April 1st, 2004
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The Last High
Joined: December 2001
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ming, you seem to have missed the point, I mean date.
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April 1st, 2004
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Debiant by way of Ubuntu
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just heard about this
read it in the evening standard - it made the headlines! I think they will only need to reduce it if people use it - considering I run my yahoo and hotmail accounts both free around 25% full on average I doubt I would use it. It's for the people who never delete.... then again will Google commit to keeping it? I remember when Blueyonder lost a whole months email out of the blue...
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April 1st, 2004
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The Last High
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They may as well say a terrabyte, who needs a gig of mail, when surely, if this is no gag, they limit attachment sizes etc.
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April 1st, 2004
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OSNN Proxy
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Originally Posted by Xie
I am happy with the job I have already. Thanks for the link, I must consider it for a few moments, NO!
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April 1st, 2004
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I don't believe this.. at all... they say the attachment size is ~10mb...
so... what would happen? people would take warez, rar them down into 10mb files, email them to their google account, give people the password and username, and BAM, warez distro storage. |
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April 1st, 2004
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OSNN Advanced
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Originally Posted by Electronic Punk
Yea, I know about the date.
Realised after I hit the submit button. But even if it were true, they wouldn't keep anything near that capacity for very long.
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April 1st, 2004
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Debiant by way of Ubuntu
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unsure if date is relevant?
Originally Posted by ming
but headline news on front cover of the Evening Standard? Did the paper get sucked into an April Fools itself?
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April 1st, 2004
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Huh?
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maybe they just want to supercede any other mail service...be it by a hell of a lot hehe
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April 1st, 2004
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ßµ®ηiή Şiliςδη
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April 1st, 2004
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OSNN Senior Addict
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Originally Posted by Aussie983
is that a challenge? a lot of my job where i work is to aid people with their problems. Not rare for me to get a call with someone saying that they can't recieve email, to uncover that they have checked 'leave a copy of message on server" and end up with 25mb (our max) in just text based message. Add in there a few video files that some people insist on sending via email, and this could jump up exponentially pretty quick... Given someone a few years with the same account, it could dfeinately fill up quickly... and then there is my idea of raring files and putting them in the email account and giving your username and password out for people to download the stuff. |
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April 1st, 2004
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Coenfidentialityism
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it could happen, this could be a mixed blessing, i mean i fill up my free hotmail account about 4 times a day, think of the field day the spammers will have.... all that porn! *gasp*
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April 1st, 2004
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- geek -
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Originally Posted by Mainframeguy
It's all over every site on the net ... most all sites will post anything w/ a press release
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