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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Xelion on June 21, 2004, 09:21:28 am
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This has some similarity to HotSnoJ's post but I thought a better subject name was required and I had just a lot more to say.
There probably hasn't been a better time to get an email account but what do you really get...
Googles' Gmail still in its Beta stage offered users 1000MB (Close to 1GB), though what remains to be seen is how they could possibly offer such a service. With the current Internet population there was no way they could offer every user 1GB and not have problems. Apparently Gmail servers went down several times during the Beta test and now Google will be shutting down (http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i4803) the Gmail Beta service in July. So as you can see theres no doubt Google will be discontinuing the research and testing for Gmail for the time being.
Yahoomail now has larger e-mail accounts for both new and existing members, for paid users its gone up-to 2GB (absurd in its entirety) and for free users its gone upto 100MB from 4 or 6MB. They have also upped the amount you can send to 10MB. Of course you get the extra added features of spam filters and address blocking. Yahoo has also reported that there servers have shutdown twice ever since they upgraded there e-mail services.
Microsoft's hotmail remains to be the same, whether they really care or they have a plan is yet to be announced. So as far as that goes nothing is changing on their front.
While these seem to be the major competitors in e-mail, well and your own ISP accounts, which I prefer any day. There are other places like the recent Rediff (//www.rediff.com) which offers 1GB free storage with a 10MB send limit.
What I don't seem to understand is why they place such a small limit? on such a large account! What makes even less sense is why they're even considering to offer such large amounts of space? Come to think of it programs like Eudora email allow you to save e-mails to your own computer. A piece of advice for those who take advantage of this 'larger' e-mail storage, don't be surprised if they shove it back down to something more reasonable like 20MBs... losing e-mails isn't exactly a good thing especially when there important.
I spose what I'm trying to find out is if its really worth having a 1GB set aside for e-mail or even 100MB... its just e-mail isn't it!
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My entire inbox in Outlook comes to less than 1mb.
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The only trouble I get is when I want to keep the text element of an email that comes with an attachment or image in it as well... there's no way to split them down... so they take up space or get deleted.
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[color=66ff00]You use outlook? I'd assumed you would steer well clear due to it's inherent stupid design.
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True, contact list on the left, send and receive on top. Raaaaaaaah! what's that design????? What the hell did they smoke???? OMG!!!1111one
Yeah, mozilla's one is so much better, they did the same and cut the contact list away. L33t, I say.
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If it uses SMTP, I'll use it.
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Originally posted by Nico
True, contact list on the left, send and receive on top. Raaaaaaaah! what's that design????? What the hell did they smoke???? OMG!!!1111one
Yeah, mozilla's one is so much better, they did the same and cut the contact list away. L33t, I say.
ROFL, glad this review came in.
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I wonder if my GMX (www.gmx.net) account is still good. I haven't checked it in months... like 6.
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[color=66ff00]Nothing to do with the layout etc. More to do with the idiotic 'I'll open your emails automatically - and take a peek to show you what's in there - oh crap I've just executed a virus, three trojans and a killer bee attack. - Do you want me to notify microsoft help or something?'.
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Thunderbird>Outlook
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Mailbox at the front door > Outlook
:doubt:
:p
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Going to your friends house, printing out the e-mail and then going home > Outlook
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About your G-Mail link: look at the bottom
The story as represented above is written as a satire or parody. It is fictitious.
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Originally posted by DragonClaw
About your G-Mail link: look at the bottom
Name of the site: The Spoof
:p
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Oh, and the fact I just got a gmail account kinda screws it too. Xelion: try to get valid information first :p
Google already is using petabytes of storage, I doubt a few more terrabytes would hurt them in terms of email storage.
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Damn it! I knew it, I was looking at the screen last night and it was trying to tell me something, hm the website name looked odd and the idea of Gmail shutting down.. laugh at me! :nod: :lol:
More Current Info Here (http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/43020/43020.html)
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just got my GMAIL and it's the own. but clearly that amount of space isn't a problem, as YAHOO and Hotmail are both significantly increasing storage space to compete.
and yeah, it's a pretty clear spoof
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The only reason I use Outlook express is because I can use my hotmail accounts with it.... :D
EDIT: I just got a Gmail account! Oh yea! :D
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*still waiting for my GMail account*
Instead, I have this poor 3DAP account that doesn't even send outgoing mail properly. Anyone wanna have a stab at what's wrong with this thing? Use Eudora, receives fine, mail.3dap.com for outgoing (SMTP) and incoming (POP), but it chokes whenever I try to send something. Very weird. :nervous:
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Outgoing has never worked for me. I have to use my ISP's outgoing server. Works fine.
If you cant find it listed on your ISP's website, then just try something smtp.yourispname.au (or is it az for Australia?)
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Cool, that's much better. Didn't realise I could do that. :)
And yes, it's .au. :p
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I actually do it with all my accounts. Most ISP's servers are more reliable than GS.
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Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox are far superior to the Microsoft offerings. I'm VERY impressed....also better than Netscape which I had tried recently again as well (I used to use it back in the 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 days).
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Open Source > *
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Pffff. Do it old-skool, man.
Me and my homies be kickin' some serious ****. We's ain't being no browser-*****es. We be speaker-boxxxin' inta tha fone-linez 'n' ****, like *BZZZT...pung, pung, pung...crryyyyyooouuughghh, bung, bung, bung*
Dig it?
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Re why are the send limits so small, it's 'cause it takes up server time and space to receive those 10 MB, then send them.