On November 2, 2004 11:48 am, Ian Bruseker wrote: > On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:17:14 -0700, Nick W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Storage now is <$1/GB, I have 100GB of potential mail space on my laptop. > > If I need to send/recieve a huge file I use my FTP server...a GB isn't > > that big nowadays. > > You're comparing the wrong thing.
I disagree. I have email on my drive dating back to ~1996. My point was that there are other ways to store large amounts of email. > Congrats, you have 100 GB of space > on your laptop, but is your laptop a mail server? No, but it could be :) point is, it doesn't NEED to be. > The proper > comparison is that Hotmail only gives you 2 megabytes. Compared to > that, 1 gig is a kickload of space. > > That's the comparison, that's the > reason people want GMail accounts. They want an email account they > can access from anywhere and not have to worry about running out of > room and deleting that cute picture of their niece that someone mailed > them two years ago. My computer recently went in for servicing. I used another old machine to check my mail on the web for the 10 [long, excruciating] days, after which I downloaded my messages and still have them. I guarantee I get more mail than the 'average' user. > And before you get to the next argument to be > made by any self-respecting geek, you may be technical enough to set > up a mail server with terabytes of space and get web access to it, but > your average user is not that skilled. > > As for Aaron's privacy argument, I'd say your life is only as private > as you choose to make it. I agree. I think the reason I am so irritated with it is because, like Aaron, I'm tired of hearing about it. It's /.'ed every 3 days [yes, I COULD stop reading /.] and I get invites up the yin-yang. I say, to each his own, Google found a very effective way to get free advertising. Too bad its as, if not more, annoying than other forms of advertisement. You almost can't "turn it off" without offending someone. <snip> Nick _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
