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Old 12-13-2004, 09:06 AM   #1
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Lightbulb Free 1TB email accounts


Found this on the web yesterday. Curious if anyone is using this, sounds like a good way to store backups, music files etc. Details at:

http://hriders.com
 
Old 12-17-2004, 09:58 AM   #2
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Update:
I set up an account, It's a little erratic (notices on main page stating due to high demand there are problems, adding servers, etc.) But, the attachment size limit is 500MB !!!! Will keep playing with it, update if anything new comes up.




 
Old 12-17-2004, 10:29 AM   #3
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Moved: This is neither a question nor related to Linux on a technical level, moving to General where threads and dicussions like these are more suitable. Please place your threads and topics more appropiately, if your not asking a technical question about Linux, 99.9% of the time its goes in General, not any forum that starts with "Linux".
 
Old 12-17-2004, 11:40 AM   #4
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Hmm... Interesting.
But I'm more than happy with my 1 Gb spymac account, and my 1 Gb gmail account ;-)
 
Old 12-19-2004, 03:54 AM   #5
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This may be nothing more than a marketing gimmick. Even 1 GB means nothing to most people who cannot even fill up a 100 MB mailbox to even 10% of its capacity.

Note: I'm talking about the general public not those who use their mailbox as their other hard disk.
 
Old 12-19-2004, 07:17 AM   #6
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Mail accounts like this would be interesting once people have upload speeds of at least 4Mbps (500 kilobyte/s) (currently, that's my downloading speed) and downloading speeds of at least 32Mbps (4 megabyte/s).
In other words, T3 should be standard :-P
Then, such mail accounts might start to become useful as virtual hard drives.
 
Old 12-19-2004, 10:13 AM   #7
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Quote:
Originally posted by Harishankar
This may be nothing more than a marketing gimmick. Even 1 GB means nothing to most people who cannot even fill up a 100 MB mailbox to even 10% of its capacity.

Note: I'm talking about the general public not those who use their mailbox as their other hard disk.
That's right. My 2GB mailbox is still 0% now. We don't need this big emailbox.
 
Old 12-19-2004, 10:27 AM   #8
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2% (25 Mb) of my 1Gb Spymac account used.
That is: I use POP3, and everything stays on the server ;-)
 
Old 12-19-2004, 10:31 AM   #9
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That's right. My 2GB mailbox is still 0% now. We don't need this big emailbox.
And twenty years ago we didn't "need" 20G hard drives, T3 connections, or a lot of other things that are currently the norm.
Let's take that a little further:
We don't "need" Linux, we can buy computers at wally world, pre loaded, and all we have to do is plug them in, and get on that "internet thingy"


 
Old 12-19-2004, 10:59 AM   #10
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Originally posted by joe83
And twenty years ago we didn't "need" 20G hard drives, T3 connections, or a lot of other things that are currently the norm.
Let's take that a little further:
We don't "need" Linux, we can buy computers at wally world, pre loaded, and all we have to do is plug them in, and get on that "internet thingy"


We'll need 1 TB of e-mail space only after another 20 years then
 
Old 12-19-2004, 01:28 PM   #11
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I myself don't understand the need for such large inboxes or those people that never delete any email. Here's how my own inbox works:

Get mail, read it, reply if necessary, delete email.
Move any with important data in them to another folder.
Every week, delete sent items and trash. And I also clean out inbox as well.
 
Old 12-19-2004, 01:51 PM   #12
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Originally posted by trickykid
I myself don't understand the need for such large inboxes or those people that never delete any email. Here's how my own inbox works:

Get mail, read it, reply if necessary, delete email.
Move any with important data in them to another folder.
Every week, delete sent items and trash. And I also clean out inbox as well.
True, but I'm looking at it as remote storage, so the next time I "upgrade" my system and end up with basically a doorstop
instead of a working computer, I have an outside chance of system recovery as opposed to reloading.
 
Old 12-19-2004, 02:01 PM   #13
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True, but I'm looking at it as remote storage, so the next time I "upgrade" my system and end up with basically a doorstop
instead of a working computer, I have an outside chance of system recovery as opposed to reloading.
I wouldn't rely on a free email solution for system recovery if your data is that important. You should really look into other solutions..
 
Old 12-19-2004, 02:04 PM   #14
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Hmm... I just registered with this service. According to what I see, they don't give 1 Tb, but 'only' 100 Gb.
 
Old 12-19-2004, 02:42 PM   #15
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Originally posted by trickykid
I wouldn't rely on a free email solution for system recovery if your data is that important. You should really look into other solutions..
Egads!! So downloading all my japanese schoolgirl porn to this account is not safe??????????/ Heavens to Betsy!!!
All kidding aside, Linux is a hobby to me, I have no data on my system that can't be easily replaced., and am more than willing to use my system for experimental purposes, thus my penchant for Slackware
 
  


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