[TriLUG] OT: Gmail Space growing interactively

[Dave Cowan]

Honestly, I don't care how much free storage space they give 
me...regardless of how convenient it is. I ain't feeling good unless I 
have my data on a machine that I can touch and have total control over.

But I digresss...to answer your question...no, not for my(our) benefit. 
To attempt to collect information on me, my habits, and my interests so 
they can turn around and make money from that information...that is 
their ultimate goal.

My ultimate goal is to have an email address with a cool name like 
virginia.crabs at gmail.com that I can use for frivolous purposes.

=Dave

Greg Brown wrote:

> Do any of you really think that Google is giving you all this storage  
> space for *YOUR* benefit?
>
> Seriously.  Do you?
>
> Greg
>
> On Apr 2, 2005, at 1:55 AM, Augie Schwer wrote:
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>> On Apr 1, 2005 7:33 AM, Ian Kilgore <ian at trilug.org> wrote:
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>>> Of course, you can store all kinds of stuff in gmail by sending it to
>>> yourself in an email =]
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>> GmailFS :
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>> http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail- 
>> filesystem.html
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>> Augie.
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