DaMaGeINC
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Gmail is another stupid product of the internet. 1gig of email. What a waste of space. 1 email msg is like 2k, from a friend. Hi, bye, write back, is about all. After you read that, you delete it and move on. So whats the point of 1gig?
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KeepOnRockin
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| said by DaMaGeINC  :
Gmail is another stupid product of the internet. 1gig of email. What a waste of space. 1 email msg is like 2k, from a friend. Hi, bye, write back, is about all. After you read that, you delete it and move on. So whats the point of 1gig?
Yeah, 1 email msg is like 2k. However, email messages with attachments can be over 10 megabytes.
I'm sure people will utilize the space they were given in gmail to send attachments back and forth. |
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Sarah
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said by DaMaGeINC :
Gmail is another stupid product of the internet. 1gig of email. What a waste of space. 1 email msg is like 2k, from a friend. Hi, bye, write back, is about all. After you read that, you delete it and move on. So whats the point of 1gig?
Some people transfer many large files via e-mail, and like to keep copies of everything. I do this at work so when someone calls up and complains, I can go back 2 months and verify who said what and when about which file.
I have over a gig of stored e-mails on my work PC.
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said by DaMaGeINC :
Gmail is another stupid product of the internet. 1gig of email. What a waste of space.
It's not the 1gig that is the primary feature of GMail - it's how they've designed the mail threads to appear as "conversations". Essentially, the 1GB is just to augment the ability to use the GMail box as a life recorder - essentially a lifetime storage of all your Internet correspondence.
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DaMaGeINC
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I dont get it, thier are so MANY better ways to transfer files. Email is the slowest in my book, so why use it? |
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LrdVader
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said by quanta :
Essentially, the 1GB is just to augment the ability to use the GMail box as a life recorder - essentially a lifetime storage of all your Internet correspondence.
Unfortunately, that means Google is recording your life. Not a good thing in my book. |
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DaMaGeINC
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Sarah
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said by DaMaGeINC :
I dont get it, thier are so MANY better ways to transfer files. Email is the slowest in my book, so why use it?
We offer web and FTP uploads/downloads, and we accept zip disks and CD-R, but for most idiots clients, it's simpler to attach it to an e-mail, so that's what they do. And I end up with many megs in my inbox. Shrug.
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FYI from GMail's help page (which you won't be able to see if you don't have a GMail account:
said by GMail Help and FAQ's:
What's the maximum message size limit?
Answer:
You can send and receive messages up to 10 megabytes (MB) total. Any message that exceeds this limit will not be delivered to your inbox and will be returned to the sender. If you attempt to send an email that exceeds this limit, you will get an error message and your email will not be sent.
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koitsu
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Because most Internet inhabitants are lazy bastards. Durr hurr hurr, let's send this screen saver I found on some back-water website to all members of the company! Hurr hurr!
Reminds me of an employee at Best Internet shortly before my employment there. Apparently he came across some Win32 application called "BRAINTEST.EXE", and after playing with it, decided it would be intelligent to send it as an attachment to all the members of the company. If I remember correctly, the executable was about 3MBytes.
The end result is that he managed to crash the internal SMTP server intended for employee mail -- the disks filled, and (at the time) sendmail wasn't very nice about handling out-of-disk errors.
After the SAs figured out what the hell was going on and proceeded to empty out the queue, only one employee responded to the Email. All he said was:
"Looks like someone failed the test..."
There's a reason all SMTP servers let administrators configure what the maximum permitted MIME attachment size is, you know. And there's a reason administrators are continually DECREASING that maximum.
Like you, I too think Gmail is worthless. It's going to become spammer central, especially with disk space like that. Think of all the space spammers will have for bouncebacks. That's all spammers use Hotmail for, by the way. It's all automated...
Google's just trying to start a fight with Microsoft over services like Hotmail. I don't deny Google could do a better job (and I've WORKED at Hotmail!), but in lieu of all of Google's recent TOS changes and how anti-privacy they've become, I can safely say I really want nothing to do with Gmail.
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insomx
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Ever think this Aaron guy could be just doing this to collect e-mail addresses to send OUT spam? Im not sending anything to contribute!
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vic102482
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said by koitsu :
After the SAs figured out what the hell was going on and proceeded to empty out the queue, only one employee responded to the Email. All he said was:
"Looks like someone failed the test..."
There's a reason all SMTP servers let administrators configure what the maximum permitted MIME attachment size is, you know. And there's a reason administrators are continually DECREASING that maximum.
Liek you said thats the fault of the administration. You are supposed to set those limits for a reason. Also number of recipents etc.etc.
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LrdVader
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said by insomx :
Ever think this Aaron guy could be just doing this to collect e-mail addresses to send OUT spam? Im not sending anything to contribute!
I think the idea is to get people to spread the address around so it picks up actual spam, rather than sending it junk themselves. |
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pcdebb
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said by DaMaGeINC :
I dont get it, thier are so MANY better ways to transfer files. Email is the slowest in my book, so why use it?
the casual user may not know other ways of transferring files (i.e. the n00b friend i have who likes to send huge files via email, this would be perfect for him) |
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some people have more than one friend... |
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insomx
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Well DOH!!! I know he is trying to get SPAM by spreading it to test Gmail's spam blocker. What I meant was that people like you or I could just send him a mail (many people have) with our personal address and he could collect it and sell it to SPAM companies.
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| reply to DaMaGeINC
said by DaMaGeINC :
Gmail is another stupid product of the internet. 1gig of email. What a waste of space. 1 email msg is like 2k, from a friend. Hi, bye, write back, is about all. After you read that, you delete it and move on. So whats the point of 1gig?
With the HTML mail, the simplest one or two line mail is now about 4-5KB of storage. Still, the attachments is what takes most of your mailbox.
Oh, some of us want to keep all our correspondence. |
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sunburn1
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said by DaMaGeINC "I dont get it, thier are so MANY better ways to transfer files. Email is the slowest in my book, so why use it?"
You obviously have NO experience in a corporate environment.
So just what exactly is one of your many better ways to transfer word, ppt, pdf's and such to mailing lists or clients??
LoL or should I just laugh your foolish statement out of here. lolololololololololoolololololololololololoololololololololololololol |
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DaMaGeINC
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clubs: | Im not talking about little pictures and word documents. obviously email would be the best way to transfer small files. Im talking about 5-10Mb files. So please take your negativity somewhere else. |
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said by LrdVader :
Unfortunately, that means Google is recording your life. Not a good thing in my book.
As if RoadRunner doesn't already keep a copy of everything that you receive or send for compliance with the USA PATRIOT Act.
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