100 MB Yahoo Mail!!

[ThePentiumGuy]

hey guys,
yahoo just upgraded their FREE mailboxes to 100 MEGS!!
woohoo!

(why would they be doing this?)
and has anyone ever heard of Gmail.com (google mail), i heard thats gonna be 1000 MB (and im serious too)
whats goign on? anyone? im happy though

pent

 

[Volte]

I have a Gmail account, and yes it is 1GB. The interface is spiffy too. You have to be invited by another user to get an account during the test period though.

 

[ThePentiumGuy]

yeah, im looking into this right now
BTW u can get a Terrabyte thru gmail if youre invited by an Employee
http://google.weblogsinc.com/entry/8276386740662606/#c6552 !!!

Yahoo made their paid subscriptions have "virtually unlimited" mail and their free ones 100 mb
apparently, yahoo did this out of competition to GMails 1GB account



i registered for gMail thru my hotmail account (its sort of a pop3 thing? i dunno)
but since its a beta atm, i cant use it

but im just wondering:
hotmail offers 4 mb
- it asks you to register with an already existing account
if gmail offers a gig, and my gmail account is thepentiumguy@hotmail.com - will my HOTMAIL account have 1 gig now?..

see, if i receive mail from my hotmail account, if my hotmail account goes up to .. lets say 500 MB, obviously hotmail will prevent me from receiving messages..
so im a little confused on how this system will work

thanks,
pent

 

[Volte]

Uh no, its a separate Inbox. You log into Gmail and get all your mail from there. Your hotmail account remains unchanged.

Oh, and though it is in beta, you can still use it. Thats what they want. They need people to test it.

 

[ThePentiumGuy]

Uh no, its a separate Inbox. You log into Gmail and get all your mail from there. Your hotmail account remains unchanged.

Oh, and though it is in beta, you can still use it. Thats what they want. They need people to test it.

i cant use it
it tells me only a limited amount of people..etc can use this

btw just a quick q:
will i get a new address? (thepentiumguy@gmail.com) or something?
and the whole enter your email was just for confirmation purposes

thanks a lot
pent

 

[Volte]

Oh, I thought you meant you had an account already.

The secondary email is to notify you in case the Gmail service goes down or something, I would guess. Its not required.

 

[Cassio]

I heard Gmail scans emails for keywords to display ads. They are having issues with privacy already. But according to Google, no human being ever looks at an individual users email.

Btw. If you want to access your hotmail acount through POP3, so you can use outlook or eudora with it, theres this software that can make it happen. Its called Hotmail Popper. Theres a shareware version at www.fitsoftware.com . Somebody may find that usefull.

 

[ThePentiumGuy]

yeah theres a lot of privacy issues going on with GMail.
i honestly dont think its that bad, the sites that say stuff like this have a lot of out of context quotes:

example
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/more.html#data
Google keeps multiple backup copies of users emails so that we can recover messages and restore accounts in case of errors or system failure

http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
Google has never been known to delete any of the data theyve collected
...
How about words such as "box cutters" in the same email as "airline schedules"? Can you think of anyone who might be interested in obtaining a list of email addresses for that particular combination? Or how about "mp3" with "download"? Since the RIAA has sent subpoenas to Internet service providers and universities in an effort to identify copyright abusers, why should we expect Gmail to be off-limits?
Intelligence agencies would love to play with this information.



honestly i think theyre (http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/) really taking it too far here

yeah i tried Hotmal popper,
but i realized that i didnt really need a POP3 account. and besides, Outlook Express can connect to hotmail automatically,

pent