Guest Museite Report post Posted April 28, 2004 I'm sure most of you all have heard about Google offering an email service soon with allegedly 1Gb or storage capacity. Apparently there are issues with Google using the email content (via it's software) to taylor adverts according to our information and possibly the content in our emails. Also there is the possibility that any deleted emails, would be possibly stored on Google's servers even AFTER it's been deleted from the user's account. Google have denied that any human will actually read or have direct access to their email storage servers and that it is simply an extention of the same processes which MSN/Yahoo/AOL use. My question is this...for 1 Gb of storage space, does anyone actually mind if there is the possibility that their emails might be used to for tayloring advertising to our interests? Or the possibility that our emails migh still remain on the google servers? To be honest, I'm not bothered at all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest I'm That Damn Zzzzz Report post Posted April 28, 2004 I'm more interested in the potential file sharing capabilities. 1 GB holds many a file. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Museite Report post Posted April 28, 2004 There was no word on the attatchment capacity Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mole 0 Report post Posted April 28, 2004 Who the hell needs 1 GB of space for mail? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Museite Report post Posted April 28, 2004 Who the hell needs 1 GB of space for mail? Clearly YOU don't... Why not? If it's free and many times more than the top premium hotmail capcity you can get. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Dazed Report post Posted April 29, 2004 There was no word on the attatchment capacity You can have attachments up to 15mb. I'm not sure if that's per file, or per e-mail. As for the security concerns, I'm not all that bothered. For years, hotmail has "monitored" my e-mail in pretty much the same way, only they filter the spam off instead of serving advertising. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Superstring 0 Report post Posted April 29, 2004 It dosn't bother me, your signing up knowing that the Google bot is going to read your mails and in return your getting a shit load of storage capacity. Seems fair. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarvinisaLunatic 0 Report post Posted April 29, 2004 They've been beta-ing G-Mail out to people with active blogger accounts since Google owns Blogger, but I haven't heard anything about it yet. Yahoo was nice a couple weeks ago, as now all the junk mail that goes into your bulk folder doesn't count towards the 6mb of storage. I get about 5 real emails a day vs about 200 spam emails a day (my bulk folder has 2,000 emails in it now since I don't have to worry about cleaning it out due to space limits) so I don't think Im going to bother. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
swan 0 Report post Posted April 29, 2004 They've been beta-ing G-Mail out to people with active blogger accounts since Google owns Blogger, but I haven't heard anything about it yet. Yeah a couple friends have accounts. Looks like a 10mb limit on attachments. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarvinisaLunatic 0 Report post Posted May 20, 2004 Yahoo is upping their free email to 100mb starting soon. 100 mb with junk mail not counting towards that is enough for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lando Griffin 0 Report post Posted May 20, 2004 Marvin- You don't even check your junk folder for false positives? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarvinisaLunatic 0 Report post Posted May 21, 2004 Marvin- You don't even check your junk folder for false positives? No, I don't. Its not worth it. Just about everyone who I want to get email from gets through. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarvinisaLunatic 0 Report post Posted June 15, 2004 100 mb free email space on Yahoo starts Tuesday Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0 Report post Posted June 15, 2004 I like my account here better. I don't know if they are going to be taking any more free account registers, but I got one. I was talking to a guy that was able to attack 150mb porn vids on it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobobrazil1984 0 Report post Posted June 15, 2004 I actually have a gmail account. Its got a nice easy to use interface, and i like the idea of a search bar that can search through all your emails. I had someone send me a 5 meg mp3 which came no problem. I dont know what the attachment limit is though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
