I just got Gmail

Joris · Post by **Joris** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 4:05 am

Thanks denrix. I already have a GMail account but I sent the invitation to my brother

dr_st · Post by **dr_st** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:33 am

I have a free e-mail with unlimited storage, so screw Google and their G-mail, that's been "upcoming for the public" for months now.

Post by **wardrich** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:11 pm

Thanks Jessica Denrix! Look @ me!! [email protected]

[|||||||...] Regaining Geek status (70%)

-Richard-

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 6:17 pm

Wow this Gmail is becoming a fad like the Tickle Me Elmo, the Tamagotchi, Pokemon, bell-bottom jeans, pet rocks, spiky hair, and the Macarena.

Post by **wardrich** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:19 pm

until it becomes mainstream.. and drops its size down to like 2mb like Hotmail did.... lol

<i>-Richard- shows great optimism for Gmail</i></sarcasm>

Post by **Wally** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:40 pm

well hotmail sux....

I do hope gmail has mobile phone access via sms @ cheap rates

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 2:48 am

I think it'll stay at a gig. Spymac seems to be doing okay.

Joris · Post by **Joris** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 5:35 am

There must be something of a compression on it, otherwise they need a very very huge server over there...

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 5:29 pm

Or spanned RAID with lots of cheap hard drives. Or it may be quota based, they may be hoping that not everyone uses their full gig. If they have 800 GB and 1600 users, that would work if everyone only used half of their space.

For curiosity, all you Gmail users here, are you planning to fill all your space? If not, then you see my point.

Joris · Post by **Joris** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:11 am

I'm not planning to use it all, but I'm sure that I won't delete any serious emails. I just leave them in my inbox and so on all space will be used...

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 1:13 pm

Depending on who you buy from and the size of the drive in question, HDDs cost a little under $1 per gigabyte. So, assuming most users will average between a quarter and half a gig, that'd be about $0.40 for each user google'd be spending. How much money is google getting out of this?