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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.
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.
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.
Originally posted by leeco 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"
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
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.
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.
Originally posted by joe83 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..
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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