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Post by Renegade on Jun 24, 2004 0:11:13 GMT
Since the launch of the beta version of Gmail, offering 1gb of storage, serveral other major email providers (Yahoo, Hotmail) have followed suit by either upping their space limits or announcing plans to increase limits in the near future. Since the space increase is so big, can email providers really afford to do this? I personally think that the space is going to be oversold, with providers hoping that people don't use all the space they're given. Your views?  |
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Post by Brian on Jun 24, 2004 0:47:24 GMT
I personally think that the space is going to be oversold, with providers hoping that people don't use all the space they're given. That's what I'm thinking too. |
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Post by :O on Jun 24, 2004 2:05:38 GMT
Since the launch of the beta version of Gmail, offering 1gb of storage, serveral other major email providers (Yahoo, Hotmail) have followed suit by either upping their space limits or announcing plans to increase limits in the near future. Since the space increase is so big, can email providers really afford to do this? I personally think that the space is going to be oversold, with providers hoping that people don't use all the space they're given. Your views? Well, can they afford it? If they up the storage amount, and keep the ads there, more people will sign up, see the ads, click the ads, BLAH BLAH meaning yahoo, hotmail, google etc get more money and can pay for it... Can they keep on doing it? There will probably be an end, sooner or later. Oh and, Emu at my email  |
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Post by snap2000 on Jun 24, 2004 3:11:42 GMT
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I, personally, only get about 1-2 valid emails a week, and delete them after I read em.
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Post by Nocando on Jun 24, 2004 5:54:53 GMT
Exactly how many emails will it take to fill up 1gig of space..? None of you know, and neither do I. I think google offered so much just so it can catch up on popularity with hotmail and yahoo 
Oh and EMU!
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Post by :O on Jun 24, 2004 7:26:49 GMT
Exactly how many emails will it take to fill up 1gig of space..? None of you know, and neither do I. I think google offered so much just so it can catch up on popularity with hotmail and yahoo
Oh and EMU! There was a subdomain at gmail with someone who is going to try to fill up his 1gig... so you know the page says for anyone and everyone to send him emails to try to fill it up..he said he like has...i dont know..some number with a 3 percent I THINK  PROBABLY wrong now o.o |
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Post by flump on Jun 24, 2004 13:55:55 GMT
with the amount of junk mails most of us receive it wont take long to fill 1 gig up !  |
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Post by :O on Jun 24, 2004 15:14:22 GMT
with the amount of junk mails most of us receive it wont take long to fill 1 gig up ! It will take long, trust me, read my post above... EDIT TO MY POST ABOVE:It's not a subdomain of gmail, sorry gmail.prattboy.net/Read.. O.O As of June 15th his account is full... BUT. Read the chart at the top. If you click the "LAST WEEK" link and look at May 13th, he got a total of 634 messages..IN ONE DAY. And only took up 30 MB. You dont have that many in one day, do you o.o |
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Post by FreeWill on Jun 24, 2004 19:27:19 GMT
1GB of storage - it's a bit excessive really. 2MB - too little. A good amount would be 30MB for now, and when the broadband takeup increases throughout the world, then on to 1GB then, but the average e-mails for me take up.... 50kB? I think that works out at approx. 20,000 e-mails.  Still, good for those who want ot share CDs with their friends. If only the companies worked together to combat Piracy, but that's another matter  Companies can't have enough storage space to save all of those e-mails on. 1,000,000+ customers, like hotmail, would take 1,000TB+ of storage. AFAIK the best storage available is 5TB to a disk the size of a room! Gmail either *can't enable customers to have all of the space - and don't expect everyone will use all of their space *will only allow very few people to have Gmail accounts - as they are doing at the moment (tho I think that's beta testing). |
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Post by suicideguy on Jun 28, 2004 17:26:22 GMT
Emu ate my GMail. /me sends myself another invite  |
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Post by Masked on Jun 28, 2004 18:34:24 GMT
Hmm, when it's open to the public, I think I'll set up a few dozen accounts and send tonnes of digital images/music to each ... just to annoy google. |
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Post by Renegade on Jun 28, 2004 21:05:08 GMT
Companies can't have enough storage space to save all of those e-mails on. 1,000,000+ customers, like hotmail, would take 1,000TB+ of storage. AFAIK the best storage available is 5TB to a disk the size of a room! Gmail either *can't enable customers to have all of the space - and don't expect everyone will use all of their space *will only allow very few people to have Gmail accounts - as they are doing at the moment (tho I think that's beta testing). My guess is that if everyone used all the space Google provides in GMail accounts, the 1gb limit would quickly be reduced. I have 1 invite left, so if there's anyone who doesn't already have a GMail account, who'd like one, PM me taken by Asitro |
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Post by :O on Jun 29, 2004 4:17:35 GMT
My guess is that if everyone used all the space Google provides in GMail accounts, the 1gb limit would quickly be reduced. I have 1 invite left, so if there's anyone who doesn't already have a GMail account, who'd like one, PM me Who did you invite |
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Post by Nocando on Jun 29, 2004 5:40:35 GMT
Whoever asked (not begged or demanded) first is my guess... I think I was late but it's all good heh.
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Post by :O on Jun 29, 2004 8:23:53 GMT
Whoever asked (not begged or demanded) first is my guess... I think I was late but it's all good heh. I'm that one that gave him his invite, whiling have 13 left currently, I dont need one from hm LOL  |
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PROBABLY wrong now o.o
