Have a g-mail account?

[zjl56]

Google is being pretty smart. You don't actually get 1gb free. You only get memory ad you need it.

 

[SeleucusNicator]

Got one from another CFC member, actually.

 

[Plexus]

I got mine through Blogger.

 

[Dell19]

I think the joke is on us.Most people want gmail accounts because of the gigabyte of space, yet nobody will ever need that much space.

It would be possible to use 1gb very quickly it just depends on how large atachments can be...

 

[Ankka]

Yeah, you could attach something like all your files to be there...

 

[Dell19]

1 film would pretty much use up all the space...

 

[MarineCorps]

I think the attachmet Limit is 5MB. As on Tv I was watching a show and they had a Gmail acount called "Fillmybox". Guess what the purpose was. and they asked for 5MB attachments.

 

[Dell19]

Well 5 mb is a song... I wonder what they would do if lots of people started uploading songs to their accounts...

 

[GeZe]

Who needs Gmail when I have 2 gigs free at Spliff. (powered by The Dodo)

 

[shadowdude]

It would be possible to use 1gb very quickly it just depends on how large atachments can be...

You could fill it up quickly if you used it as an extension to your hard drive

@Geze
Spliff?

 

[Dell19]

You could fill it up quickly if you used it as an extension to your hard drive

The problem would be whether 1gb is really enough? I guess I might store backup files on Gmail but I would prefer to use my university account which I trust far more to work regularily.

 

[hbdragon88]

I got one, paid for it (on another message board's currency). I'm mad that I've only gotten one invite out of the three weeks I have had my account.

 

[MarineCorps]

I got one, paid for it (on another message board's currency). I'm mad that I've only gotten one invite out of the three weeks I have had my account.

Sorry have to do this. Within the first few days of having one I got 6 invites. And got mine for free. And I still have one left

 

[Dell19]

Mine account seems to have problems working... Whenever I try to do anything it comes up with a message saying that I should wait till later...

 

[Ankka]

Server busy?

 

[Dell19]

It still doesn't work now and I have tried several times at a range of different times over the last few days. The only thing I can do is sign in and sign out.

 

[Ankka]

Hmm... maybe your ISP has something to do with it?

 

[Dell19]

Oddly it finally worked just now...

 

[MarineCorps]

Who needs Gmail when I have 2 gigs free at Spliff. (powered by The Dodo)

What is it was one terabyte of email space?

Google ups the email storage ante - again


Stephen Shankland
CNET News.com
May 19, 2004, 09:25 BST


Tell us your opinion

The battle of the gigabytes continues - for some email users, Gmail is now offering a terabyte of storage






Google just escalated the email storage arms race by a factor of 1,000.


Several users of the search engine's Gmail Web-based email service noticed on Tuesday that their storage limits had quietly been raised to one million megabytes, or one terabyte. That's four times the typical capacity of a new high-end PC's hard drive.


The Gmail service still is in testing, and it wasn't immediately clear how widely Google will offer the higher storage limit, under what conditions, or to which users.


Google didn't respond for requests for comment late on Tuesday.


Detroit resident Rajiv Vyas, who has been using Gmail for about a month, was wowed by the change. "It's great. Although I am not sure what I will do will all this memory," he said. "In the long run, it would help me store not only photos but every file on my desktop. This is 10 times more [storage space] than what I have on my office or home PC."


Others who spotted the change posted notices to Web logs and Web sites.


Google triggered a rush to offer more storage space for Web-based email services with the April announcement of 1GB of capacity. The move pressured the dominant Web-based email service providers, Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail, which currently charge subscribers $10 to $50 per year for a much smaller amount of email storage space.


Yahoo responded to Gmail with a plan for 100MB of space. Lycos began offering 1GB for a fee. And the Macintosh-focused competitor Spymac offers 1GB for free.


Gmail's liberal storage limits may be popular, but the service's terms triggered privacy concerns because of Google's plan scan the content of email messages in order to serve up targeted advertisements.

 

[shadowdude]

If its a terabyte of space now, I could use that for an extension to my hard drive!