Google Email - Who's gonna get theirs?

primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
edited August 2004 in Science & Tech
Who's gonna sign up for google email? they are going to offer 1gig of space for free.

Google is starting to look more and more like THE DEVIL ;D
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  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited March 2004
    Sounds good to me.

    Not ready yet.
    http://gmail.google.com/
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    You're kidding, right? A gig of free space?

    Screw e-mail, I want their servers. All of them. And their internet connection. ;D
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited March 2004
    Remember what tomorrow is. Saw that it was dated for tomorrow.

    Thats an evil one.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited April 2004
    mmonnin wrote:
    Remember what tomorrow is. Saw that it was dated for tomorrow...
    Does this mean Ann-Margret's not coming?
  • hoojhooj Bournemouth, UK
    edited April 2004
    Well supposedly gmail is not googles april fools joke, the following on the other hand is http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html
  • dragonV8dragonV8 not here much New
    edited April 2004
    profdlp wrote:
    Does this mean Ann-Margret's not coming?

    Oh no, you found out about my secret fantasy. Don't tell anyone. :-/
  • CaffeineMeCaffeineMe Cedar Rapids, IA
    edited April 2004
    With a gig of space to anyone, Google could become THE email provider for all, everywhere. Which, has it's pluses and minuses to be sure, but it would be easier to direct people to my google address. If they can put in some decent SPAM and virus filtering (Yahoo currently does a good job with this), this could be quite exciting. Or, it could become the wasteland that is Hotmail. Time will tell.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    CaffeineMe wrote:
    With a gig of space to anyone, Google could become THE email provider for all, everywhere. Which, has it's pluses and minuses to be sure, but it would be easier to direct people to my google address. If they can put in some decent SPAM and virus filtering (Yahoo currently does a good job with this), this could be quite exciting. Or, it could become the wasteland that is Hotmail. Time will tell.

    Actually, hotmail has two things currently:

    I web pick up hotmail, in browser. It does have an adaptable antispam on the web, in fact, you can set it so it allows only folks on a white list to email to you. Set it up on the server interface, with a browser. OE does not have client end stuff, so with hotmail you end up having to web-pickup in a browser to get the benefit of hotmail antispam stuff.

    Second, hotmail is virus scanned, and they started doing so before Yahoo did for virus-scanning. They have been scanning for AV on hotmail accounts for about 4 years plus-- just do not advertise it... :D

    The folks at Hotmail actually redid the whole interface, it now has spam-mark buttons in the interface, that part is new, but I have had my hotmail account set to pretty much exclusive for over two years now. BTW, I have free hotmail account, use it for things I do not need to remote pickup-- have had it for six years.

    Folks over in the EU pretty much forced Microsoft to redo the hotmail interface a while back-- like 4-5 months ago the interface work started showing up bit by bit, you do NOT need to login with IE anymore either (and this last thing is what the EU went after Microsoft to get). Hotmail does not give you headers saying that viruses have been killed, virused email is just deleted. The Hotmail antispam is trainable also, by account, like a Spam Assassin enabled server(I do not think they use that per se, but do use something LIKE it).

    John D.
  • teflemingtefleming
    edited April 2004
    uhh, is this for real, CNN-Money seems to think so:
    link
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    I like Hotmail, so I'll stay with it. What does anyone need a GB of space in their email account for?

    My junk mail has dropped way down in the past couple months. I used to get lots of it, now maybe only 1-2 every couple days.
  • floppybootstompfloppybootstomp Greenwich New
    edited April 2004
    Tim wrote:
    What does anyone need a GB of space in their email account for?

    Eh? Maybe I'm being naive here, but I assumed if you open an e-mail account with Google, you got a Gig of free space you could do what you liked with. Like storing stuff, hosting a site, linking to pix and everything else you'd do with space.

    Not so? have I got this wrong?
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    floppybootstomp wrote:
    Eh? Maybe I'm being naive here, but I assumed if you open an e-mail account with Google, you got a Gig of free space you could do what you liked with. Like storing stuff, hosting a site, linking to pix and everything else you'd do with space.

    Not so? have I got this wrong?

    The way they word it makes it sound like space for anything. Lets hope they allow remote linking...
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    floppybootstomp wrote:
    Eh? Maybe I'm being naive here, but I assumed if you open an e-mail account with Google, you got a Gig of free space you could do what you liked with. Like storing stuff, hosting a site, linking to pix and everything else you'd do with space.

    Not so? have I got this wrong?

    I'm pretty sure it's not a gig of free webspace - it's a gig of space for your email box.. You can't link to anything or store stuff, or host a site.

    I could be wrong about this, but that's the impression that I've gotten so far.
  • floppybootstompfloppybootstomp Greenwich New
    edited April 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    I'm pretty sure it's not a gig of free webspace - it's a gig of space for your email box.. You can't link to anything or store stuff, or host a site.

    I could be wrong about this, but that's the impression that I've gotten so far.

    Oh. :( In which case, I'll have to agree with Tim ;D

    A Gig's worth of e-mails? Strewth :buck:
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    This makes it clearer - http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html#support

    Not sure there I got the other idea from, I'm sure I read something about being able to access images and such.... but it isn't on there, so I must be seeing things.
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    "Joker, I want you to get straight up to fubye, Captian January will need all his people."
  • McBainMcBain San Clemente, CA New
    edited April 2004
    yeah, but think of the filesharing implications. A gig is a lot of free unmonitored space that one could use to transfer an assload of files
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited April 2004
    Creep wrote:
    "Joker, I want you to get straight up to fubye, Captian January will need all his people."
    :D:D:D
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    It's out there... and it's online!

    A friend of mine just got invited to open an account :eek: He got the most absurdly cool name... I won't post it so he doesn't get hit with spam but it is a damn cool one, and none of that numbers-on-the-end crap.

    I've been promised the top spot on his list when he is able to invite another person :bigggrin: :rockon:

    Apparently, it took the person who invited him about a month before he was allowed to invite another person. I have no idea if it is contingent on amount of usage or time. Damn ingenious strategy for rolling out an e-mail service so a couple creeps don't steal all the good ones though, isn't it?
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited June 2004
    McBain wrote:
    yeah, but think of the filesharing implications. A gig is a lot of free unmonitored space that one could use to transfer an assload of files


    Thats what I am hoping for...

    But does anybody remember the whole I-Drive fiasco? They started iimposing mad restrictions. Like you could only download 100 megs a day per account, then everyone had like 25 accounts each to store/download with. ;D

    What a nightmare.

    It will be quite interesting to see how this whole thing unfolds, pop3 and imapi services would be cool. are they going to allow that?
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    It doesn't have POP3 support yet, but it will.

    http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited June 2004
    if they charge even one cent for pop3 I'm gonna bail ... i absolutely despise brower-based only providers

    edit: I guess hotmail doesn't particularly have explicit support for POP3 ... but you CAN access it via Outlook / OE, and that's what matters. When google says they won't have support for it, I just assumed you couldn't use an application to get mail, though I may be wrong...depends how they implement things.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    It's based on usage.

    My friend just redirected everything he had to that account.

    I'm staring at the sign up page, thinking of a name.


    :eek2::eek2::eek2:
  • Defcon_IVDefcon_IV Innsmouth, RI
    edited June 2004
    I would just like to append that I got it first. I gave it to GK...I am a God unto Nerds.
  • Defcon_IVDefcon_IV Innsmouth, RI
    edited June 2004
    I would like to append to my previous statement that we got the names 'creation' and 'destruction.' I the former, he the latter. We are awesome!

    OMGWTFBBQ!!11!!

    Oooh nooess@
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    :rockon:
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    i want i want!
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    entr0py wrote:
    if they charge even one cent for pop3 I'm gonna bail ... i absolutely despise brower-based only providers

    edit: I guess hotmail doesn't particularly have explicit support for POP3 ... but you CAN access it via Outlook / OE, and that's what matters. When google says they won't have support for it, I just assumed you couldn't use an application to get mail, though I may be wrong...depends how they implement things.
    Trust me, you would not ever, ever want to open your gmail in Outlook. The interface is 10x better than anything Outlook can do. Outlook pales in comparison, and would only ruin the wonderful classification and display system Google developed for e-mails. There's a lot more to it than the gig of storage... it out-classes other e-mail systems at every turn.
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited June 2004
    I got mine last week keebs, i'm still working on transferring over nearly 250 MB of mail that's on my school server to gmail. WAAAAY too much email.
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited June 2004
    well since you seem so impressed ... screenshot that mofo! (unless it's part of your agreement not to... ?) what about speed? the main reason i don't like website email is due to the wait ... and even if gmail is fast now, wait'll they get thousands of people at any given minute
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