GMail doubles its storage for us.

[PersonaNonGrata]

Whoo hoo! 2GB of storage for FREE. I frigging hate Earthlink, my broadband ISP. They only give you 10MB of space and I'm paying for that!

Anyone want a GMail invite? I have a bunch.

(Thanks to SuperGreg who hooked me up in the first place.)

[LeMansX5]

Cool, I can use for my online storage. I have 150+ gmail invites. Anyone?

[UCrewX5]

I suspect Google did this in response to SBC Yahoo's announcement on March 23, 2005 that its customers (both DSL and Dial-up) would be given 2 GB of storage in their main account and each of their 10 available sub-accounts, giving each customer account a total potential storgage capacity of 22 GB. The 2 GB size was previously only available on the main account.

Competition is a definately a good thing for the consumer

[Juanted]

Yup!

Now, Google (and Yahoo, for that matter) can sift through 2Gigs of email in your Inbox -- information with which they can "market" to you, and/or sell to other people so that THEY can market to you.

GMail's search function works well because it is reading EVERY word in every email you receive or send. I have been offered Gmail accounts several times, but I continue to decline it. No, thanks.

Juan

[UCrewX5]

Originally Posted by Kaefer

Yup!

Now, Google (and Yahoo, for that matter) can sift through 2Gigs of email in your Inbox -- information with which they can "market" to you, and/or sell to other people so that THEY can market to you.

GMail's search function works well because it is reading EVERY word in every email you receive or send. I have been offered Gmail accounts several times, but I continue to decline it. No, thanks.

Juan

I'm with you Juan. Even though I can store up to 22GB, I prefer to keep everything in Outlook and use POP3 to download all my mail into that application. Very little do I actually leave on the web mail server.

[LeMansX5]

Originally Posted by UCrewX5

I'm with you Juan. Even though I can store up to 22GB, I prefer to keep everything in Outlook and use POP3 to download all my mail into that application. Very little do I actually leave on the web mail server.

Another reason I like Gmail is that they let you use POP3 client like Outlook to download email. And if I am out of town for a week or so my account will not be full.

[Chris F.]

WOW 2GB??? Man..... Hey Josh how is google handling all this storage? They must have SAN's for MILES and MILES...