[TriLUG] OT: Gmail Space growing interactively

[Ian Kilgore]

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Mike Johnson wrote:
| Kipp Spanbauer wrote:
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|> Gmail just posted this under the "New features". I'm currently at 1359
|> MBs and it's growing every minute!!
|> ** *G is for growth
|> *Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn't mean you
|> should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday,
|> we're giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop the party there?
|> Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you
|> more space as we are able. We know that email will only become more
|> important in people's lives, and we want Gmail to keep up with our
|> users and their needs. From Gmail, you can expect more.  Kipp
|
|
| This may be opening a can of worms, but I have a dumb question:
| What on earth are you going to do with 2GB of email?  I have a little
| over 46k email messages that I've saved over the years that take up a
| 570M of space.  On average, that's about 12k per message.  Of course,
| that's probably gotten bigger over the years with HTML email and such,
| however with this average size, that means that you have somewhere
| around 110,000 messages.  How old is your gmail account?  Maybe a year?
|  That's 300 messages a day, sustained, for a year.  And doesn't gmail
| automagically delete spam and/or not count it against your storage?
|
| So I guess I'm curious, do people just never delete emails sent to their
| gmail accounts?  Subscribe a bunch of mailing lists, never delete posts?
|  What's the point?  I have a gmail account (or two) that I never use. I
| played around with it when it was the geek thing to do, but I've pretty
| much forgotten about them.
|
| Mike, who felt like doing a little math (which I'm sure I'll get
| corrected on)
I feel the same way =].  The reason why gmail is great IMHO, is not so
much the storage, but the interface.  Its clean, fast, simple, and not
filled with flashing banner ads.  So with the other providers matching
the storage space of gmail, I still doubt many gmail'ers will switch.

Of course, you can store all kinds of stuff in gmail by sending it to
yourself in an email =]
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