100 GB Email Account 410
soccrates writes "An article on Toms Hardware describes a Californian company giving out 100 GB email accounts to its customers. They even extended a challenge to get the first user to completely fill up the account, the winner getting a 1 terabyte account !
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Slashdot Effect (Score:5, Funny)
Spam Harvesting (Score:2)
Re:Spam Harvesting (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Spam Harvesting (Score:5, Interesting)
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
It all depends on perspective.
Of course, there are common things that neither party wants, but giving a one size fits all filter for all but the most obvious will cause false positives.
Don't you think the big mail companies would have sorted it out by now if they could? They have the largest harvest of spam around.
[I was going to stop here, below are just random ramblings]
Having said all that, I believe every person should be allocated a bloom filter with their mail classification preferences. This filter is used against the results of all the identification rules.
All the mail companies should accept this token and display mail which passes. Currently, I have 4 mail providers who deal with spam differently, I would like to setup one set of rules.
The good thing about using a bloom is that preferences can be merged increasing the effectiveness, for instance, a virus filter, a fakes filter, a childsafe filter, or an office filter, developers filter etc.
Of course, this way, we don't change the front end mailing system itself, and people who don't use this token are free to handle the mail however they like.
I'll stop wafflin now.
Re:Spam Harvesting (Score:5, Insightful)
Spam isn't about what someone wants or doesn't want. It's about what's unsolicited. Yeah some people like looking at the pictures in their porn spam, but that doesn't make it any less spam.
But is it a . . . (Score:3, Funny)
Re:But is it a . . . (Score:2, Funny)
No it's not...
Just remember, there can be only one.
Ugh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ugh (Score:5, Funny)
Amateur.
Ugh-Fragile-this ego side down. (Score:5, Funny)
Well I guess we know were your moniker came from.
Re:Ugh (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Ugh (Score:4, Insightful)
Sorry to spoil the fun, but you would sure need a heck of a lot of bandwidth to do that. Home DSL/Cable connections are de-facto excluded here.
Re:Ugh (Score:4, Informative)
The site in your sig currently has nothing but a few dozen cheap referer-style links to pay sites.
http://www.empornium.us/ [empornium.us]
http://www.thehun.com/ [thehun.com]
http://www.madthumbs.com/ [madthumbs.com]
Re:Ugh (Score:2)
Re:Ugh (Score:5, Interesting)
for i in `seq 20`; do dd if=/dev/random of=file$i bs=5M count=100; done
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Re:Ugh (Score:3, Informative)
Your better bet is to use if=/dev/zero (much higher throughput), or take a small random sample and repeat it.
Re:Ugh (Score:5, Informative)
*Sigh* (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:*Sigh* (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm not attacking Google for coming out with the initial 1 GB service; I'm attacking the idiots who feel they have to outdo it as an advertising gimmick.
Re:*Sigh* (Score:5, Insightful)
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*raises eyebrow*
1) Use GPG to encrypt your emails (using a web-to-imap/pop proxy from freshmeat.net, together with your email client of choice [mutt, pine, evolution, Mail.app etc]).
2) Get said proxy together with fetchmail and/or quick 10 min $script_lang script to suck it down and just back it up locally every now and again.
Re:*Sigh* (Score:5, Funny)
muwhaha!!
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Can't imagine why anyone would need more than 640k!
Re:*Sigh* (Score:3, Interesting)
What a rip.
Benefiting how? Would you really make more use of 100 GB than 1 GB? What they do is just increasing "the number that matters" to sell their product. Notice how they aren't at all adding any other of Gmail's features. That's because it was only the account size that got attention when Gmail was introduced, so they ignore other things, because they don't really care for their customers, just to sell the
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Yeah, it's too bad... (Score:2)
To win 1TB (Score:5, Funny)
Re:To win 1TB (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:To win 1TB (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:To win 1TB (Score:2)
Re:To win 1TB (Score:2)
3 Steps.... (Score:2, Insightful)
2)Post email address to Slashdot, asking for any and all to send you random stuff
3)Profit?
Or should there be a ????? in there?
Shall we do it? (Score:2)
I'll sign up for one when I get home if no one posts a reply.
No no no... (Score:2)
Good to know (Score:2)
Hopefully if my usage trend continues, there should be 100 GB accounts for everyone before my account completely fills up in 5 years here.
Re:Good to know (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Good to know (Score:2)
Rediculous (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Rediculous (Score:2)
Those were the days...
Somewhere in Redmond today... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Next poll topic! (Score:2)
I also have every E-mail and Fidonet message to or from myself since 1989
By the Way... .Mac upping storage too. (Score:2, Offtopic)
As I predicted when G-mail first came out the MS infrastructure is going to collapse under the weight o
Re: (Score:5, Funny)
HORRIBLE Website (Score:5, Informative)
I would still love to see these idiots slashdotted. Go get em boys.
Re:HORRIBLE Website (Score:3, Insightful)
has to be a joke or something (Score:2)
Too Easy (Score:5, Funny)
Step 1: Rip all three Star Wars and the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings Movies (yeah yeah, the third isn't out yet) to your HD.
Step 2: Mail copies to 25 of your friends with GMail accounts as attachments.
Step 3: Have your friends change each of the file names and mail them back.
Bingo! Instant excession of 100 GB.
Alternately, you could just post your e-mail address here and say something like "You wussy, panty-wasted Linux hackers couldn't spam-bomb my account even if you wanted to! Your hacking skills are pathetic and lame! Besides, everyone knows that REAL MEN use Windows!"
I figured that's good for getting mailed 500 full distros within an hour. That should do the trick. ;-)
Problem (Score:2)
Unlimited! (Score:2, Interesting)
100GB is basically 'unlimited' to the average email user anyway. Now I'm just waiting for the next company to offer true unlimited servce.
Already unlimited (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm getting ready to install a server with 200GB of home space, so thus its like I offer 200GB email accounts. Whenever I get close to running out of space, I upgrade.
Re:Unlimited! (Score:4, Interesting)
Uhh... You've come to the right place [slashmail.org]
Of course, OSDN isn't giving them away, but they are also giving add-free access for $14/year.
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Free gmail invites [slashdot.org]
Re:Unlimited! (Score:2, Informative)
Slashmail has nothing to do with [slashmail.org] Slashdot or OSTG.
Re:Unlimited! (Score:2)
Thanks for pointing that out.
Re:Unlimited! (Score:2)
That should be "ad-free" as in "free of advertising" not "add-free" as in "free of arithmetic"
Re:Unlimited! (Score:2)
(Unlimited, unless we think you're using too much. No published number, but just what we think on that particular day, depending on who you talk to)
What they didn't tell you is... (Score:5, Funny)
I can win... (Score:3, Funny)
Piece of cake...is there a way to auto-forward my hotmail account? Should take about a week...
A real use for this stuff (Score:5, Insightful)
The 100 G account would be great for backing up digital images, something that is extremely hard to do otherwise (bit rot on CDs, DVDs and even naked hard drives, which is what I use now). Yeah, I take a lot of pictures.
I just got notified that because I purchased extra
You cannot have too many backup strategies. I use
The day I walked into my office and my HD was dead, I saved the entire accumulated cost of all this by being able to boot up from the second drive within seconds and carry on working.
Re:A real use for this stuff (Score:2)
Your backup strategy involves using your gmail storage.
Makes me wonder, do you realize that your gmail account gets nuked if someone invited by you starts sending spam? I'm not sure how far up the tree the nuking goes, but if you invite a spammer, you both get the axe.
Just sayin....
Re:A real use for this stuff (Score:2)
I don't use the gmail account for any critical backup... in fact my whole strategy is that there should be no such thing as a critical backup... but it is a VERY convenient tool. For example, an account that you forward all 'your password is' emails to.
36 million subscribers * 100Gb = ???? (Score:3, Insightful)
Another alternative is, of course, to post it on Slashdot. But the question that lingers, is how in the hell did a little unknown magazine end up signing up 36 million people?
Now I'm not a biker myself, but you'd think with that many e-mail addresses from this company I'd of seen it once or twice working in tech support...
Why Longhorn of Course! (Score:2)
What's the maximum attachment size? (Score:2, Interesting)
Easy to fill (Score:2)
What if I upload a 200 MB file and send to myself in email and then forward it over and over to myself until 100 GB is full. Shouldnt take more than an afternoon's work??
Ahh (Score:2)
One post on usenet with your email address complaining about your small penis size. Then just sit back and wait.
100gb mail? just give me the stinkin drive! (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes, chide me, fellow slashdotters.. for I did not know that they are relying on sparse mailboxes.
This company would terminate the service (or file for Chapter 11) long before the millionth user took their first gig.
1 TB free service (Score:3, Insightful)
would be to offer 1 TB space for all- that would really be unprecedented and gain the maximum publicity and no one in this world would probably use more than a few GB - and the owner wouldnt have to worry about providing 1 Tb since as and when a user signs up , 1 Tb space doesnt need to be allocated and can be scaled up as and when required.
From TFA (Score:2)
Seems conveniently priced at the price of a hard drive plus a decent amount of bandwidth, now if you are making an archive of quite a few mailing lists this may be worth it, however If I really needed this much space, I'd just host it myself.
hriders.com (Score:4, Funny)
but how about the long run? (Score:2)
I'll settle for a little less storage, from a stable provider with a sound business and IT plan, thanks.
I could fill it... (Score:2)
Anyways, my pr0n drive alone was over 150GB (yeah, I know). All I'd have to do is bring the server into work, stick it on the T1, configure QOS on the router to give my box preference (good to be the admin), and let er rip.
Anybody know how long it would take to upload 100gb at 1.5mb/sec?
Not so wierd (Score:5, Interesting)
I think Google (or anyone) shouldn't have a problem just giving people "unlimited" email space (and then whacking abuser accounts who mount gmail-based filesystems to store terabytes of pr0n...). For legitimate users of the system:
1) It's text, compress it, save space.
2) If you have a large user base, chances are there are many duplicate emails floating around the system. Hash everyone's email body-content globally. Then when that stupid email gets forwarded to 6000 of your customers, it only gets stored once for each unique form it arrives in. Ditto for mailing list emails.
3) Make sure that your spam filter is really good, and especially that it never falses tosses legit emails, so that people trust it. Anything that's in the spam box gets autokilled in a week.
4) Limit attachments to reasonable sizes. You're trying to stop people from email-attaching a 700MB uncompressed cd rip, or whatever. Gmail currently limits the entire message, all attachments included, to 10MB in size. They do other stupid things too though, like not letting you send zipfiles... A better system that leaves more freedom for the user might be to say that all attachment types are legal, but if a message's total length exceeds 10MB, then attachments in it will be "flagged for deletion", starting with the largest attachment in the message first, until the number is under 10MB. These larger "flagged for deletion" attachments get forceably deleted from your email archives after 24 hours, or 3 days, or something of that nature. In this way you can still transport large files via email, you just can't archive them there.
Once those simple measures are in place, you can largely rely on statistics and reasonability. If a reasonably average webmail user actually received and archived over a gig of mail in a year under such a system I'd be impressed.
I would use a few megs (Score:2)
I do believe (Score:2)
While the base64 encoding isn't terribly efficient for space, an interesting characteristic of email is that multiple recipients at the same domain - say gmail.com, benefit from a single data transmission to gmail's server delivering the mail to several destination accounts. So for the first time we
ln -s /var/spool /dev/null (Score:2)
And it's all for SPAM (Score:2)
Well, count me out. This is obviously a grab for attention, not to provide a legitimate service.
Compression (Score:2)
Chris
Suggestion for Gmail... (Score:2)
Did you say SPAM? (Score:2)
only person left? (Score:2, Interesting)
My GMail account is basically useless as is because I don't want to use the Pop Goes The Gmail Hack [jaybe.org].
Re:only person left? (Score:3, Informative)
Why? (Score:2)
Seriously... How much space does your non-spam e-mail take up?
What about the GUI? (Score:5, Insightful)
Can you imagine how long... (Score:3, Interesting)
InnerWeb
mp3 storage (Score:5, Interesting)
This way, where ever you go, your tunage is on tap. It might takea while to DL, but so what! I know if my house was ravaged by some Tornado or Hurricane, and all my CDs were blown to flinders or washed out to sea, I would definitely appreciate the back up...
RS
Uhh.. Duh? (Score:5, Funny)
To backup my 100 gmail accounts, DUH.
Too bad it really doesn't matter (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Slashdot Network - p2p (Score:3, Funny)
Imagine All the slashdot guys sharing all their interesting stuff!This email account could very well serve that purpose
Yeah but what would the rest of the 100 gigs be used for?
Re:Size Doesn't Matter (Score:2)
http://gmail.google.com/ [google.com]
Re:Size Doesn't Matter (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Size Doesn't Matter (Score:2)
They don't understand what it is about Gmail that makes it so good.
Re:Bikers? (Score:3, Informative)
You didn't read the article.
"Hellacious Riders' primary business is an online motorcycle magazine which publishes articles about motorcycles, lists classifieds, and provides access to a topic-specific search engine. In order to attract interest, the company launched a 3-Gigabyte free email service a little over a month ago and since t