the big thing about gmail for me is not really the space because I don't think I will even need 500mb. I think gmail is good because it has a fast interface. hotmail, yahoo, and many other web based email is too slow. Partly because of the huge banner graphic ads they are loading but also because they try to make their service look good with all the useless graphics. Gmail takes the simple approach and as a result loads much faster. I don't need my email program to look good. I just want to send emails without having to wait after every click of the mouse.

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...Hm..

Considering this is a lovely free email account, I think 2GB is great.. I've had it for a year now, and have never deleted an email that wasn't spam.. including the ones containing all the pictures, music, and mpeg clips my friends have sent me.. and still, I'm only at 4%.

People who need more than 2GB for email are probably using it for.. something other than email ^^;
Save that stuff on your HD and delete a few messages ^^;

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I'm using 5 percent of my gmail box, I get a lot of auto generated messages (Like the new post on x forum blablabla, so I remember to keep visiting trap17 ) Also lot's of HTML emails, which take a lot of space as well. Still, 2669 MB space (It's that many on my account at the time I'm writing wrtiting) is enough to keep receiving these news letters for a year or five, and then I should start deleting one or two.

And Google mail isnt just good for the 2.5 GB storage space they provide, Google will continue to expend the features of their mail, so we will stay interested in them. For me, Google Mail is the best.

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Always complaining. I don´t mind if google or another email provider offered 3 gigas or 3 terabytes in the past. The fact is that Gmail provides us more that 2 gigas and it´s mora than enough, unless we want to have our mp3 or video collection there, which is kind of stupid. For me is a great offer and their ads doesn´t disturb me.

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Gmail can give you 1terabyte of space... but you will never use it. Gmail will ban you if you try to upload some realy big files and then use it like hostin...
If you login in 10min with 3 diferent IP it will block your account for some time. So there is no chance to spend all that space.
So they offer more than thay have... you think that they have 2000mb for each user nope...
some users have 0% used some 2, 3, even 50% but noone have all used. I think you get the point.
And what do you people get as an atach in mail ? Games ? movie ?
mail is not P2P

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Where there is a will, there is always a way. You know that there will be someone out in the world will find a way to fill up all thier space on GMail, that way we can sit back and think, what a sad life they have. :P

GMail can still be used for hosting, you just got to know how to dodge the system. ie. Your file could be sent to you as an attahment. There is some code around that can do it somewhere.

GMail have got a good little service!

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yes, i love gmail is so easy to use and has a friendly interface, at least for me is everything i've ever wanted =)

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yeah.. i agree with you, there is no way they could afford to have that much space. There are so many people have gmail out there. Let say.. around 1,000,000.. so. .it's 2.6 x 10 ^ 6. so it will be 26,000,000 gb

one terabyte is 1000 gb right?

so that will be 26, 000 terabyte. <---- a 250gb hdd is about 100 something ... even if they have a special deal on hdd.. .and reduce it to ... $30-60.. .that's still alot..

of course.. this is so far just a beta version, there will be more when it is released to the public.

 

 

 

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GMail? Not enough space?

It' like some guy standing with a freind in a giant warehouse.... with only two boxes in it, and saying;

Guy 1 : "I Think I need more storage space-space-space-spa..."
Guy 2 : "Yes, it is quite crowded-owded-owded-owde..."
Guy 1 : "*darn*, those free warehouse providers are stingy these days-ays-ays..."

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I've had gmail since probably a month after it started. I'm an email packrat, I've got big files and attactments saved. And I write to myself a lot as well, kind of like a journal. I don't think I am even using 2% of my space.

I remember back when I first got hotmail and yahoo, there was a tiny amount of space, like 2mb or something.

I'd still pick gmail over any of the others even if they only offered one tenth of the space they are offering now. I like the 'labels instead of folders' feature and the layout better than the others.

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