On Tue, 3 May 2005, Shawn Tan Ser Ngiap wrote:

> It wasn't very quiet... They announced it... Then Gmail retaliated.. with
> their Infinity + 1 programme during April 1st... Now gmail mailbox sizes are
> constantly increasing... Good online storage space..

So you have the average DSL connection with 128k upload and you want to 
make use of your 1G gmail space. It would take you about two years to 
fill it, yes ? Have you started uploading already ? With the network 
cost over two years you can buy at least 7 hard disks, each 80 times the 
1G you are trying to use. I.e. that 'free storage space' costs about 
1090 times as much as the same space on a hard disk, even if you 
disregard the two year upload time and the fact that there is probably 
some fine print somewhere that tells you that data loss can and may 
occur in your mailbox.

I love the 'unlimited mailbox size' and 'unlimited web space' offers. 
It's such wonderful marketing.

Peter
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