ThePentiumGuy Posted January 9, 2005 Author Posted January 9, 2005 It seems people are concerned with privacy ("OH NO A COMPUTER IS READING MY MAIL!!"). But I do understand now that since hotmail/yahoo have upgraded people aren't seeing the need for gmail anymore. Hey, all I needed was roughly 10 MB. 2 MB was torture for me. So I guess people are now saying "Why the hell do I need 1 GB when I can keep my existing account which has enough, 250 MB". -TPG Quote My VB.NET Game Programming Tutorial Site (GDI+, Direct3D, Tetris [coming soon], a full RPG.... you name it!) vbprogramming.8k.com My Project (Need VB.NET Programmers) http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/ResolutionRPG
coldfusion244 Posted January 9, 2005 Posted January 9, 2005 It seems people are concerned with privacy ("OH NO A COMPUTER IS READING MY MAIL!!"). But I do understand now that since hotmail/yahoo have upgraded people aren't seeing the need for gmail anymore. Hey, all I needed was roughly 10 MB. 2 MB was torture for me. So I guess people are now saying "Why the hell do I need 1 GB when I can keep my existing account which has enough, 250 MB". -TPG Since there is nothing in my mail ever worth reading (I normally just send pictures [they are worth 1,000 words]) I really could care less....And if it wants to search my pictures..go ahead! Quote -Sean
ThePentiumGuy Posted January 9, 2005 Author Posted January 9, 2005 Heh "OH NO IT FIGURED OUT WHAT MY PICTURE IS! IT CAN FIND MY LOCATION BY SCANNING THE SURROUNDINGS!" -TPG Quote My VB.NET Game Programming Tutorial Site (GDI+, Direct3D, Tetris [coming soon], a full RPG.... you name it!) vbprogramming.8k.com My Project (Need VB.NET Programmers) http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/ResolutionRPG
Jay1b Posted January 10, 2005 Posted January 10, 2005 Cheers. I have 3 hotmail accounts, so i dont actually need gmail anymore myself. Just curious into its workings. Incidentally i am using about 5mb of my main hotmail account, thats keeping every mail (excluding ones with attachments + junk) since about 1998. Quote
Richard Crist Posted January 11, 2005 Posted January 11, 2005 Wow! I've read the long line of posts on this subject. It was interesting getting everyone's take on gmail. For my part, as soon as someone invited me I jumped on the gmail bandwagon and never looked back. If you've read this thread then you've seen PG's info on what gmail has to offer. I will, however, add my comment on 1GB of space and the search capability. With 1GB I am not worried about signing up for every email list for which I have the remotest interest - and I have a lot of interests. The 1GB coupled with the search ability puts me pretty much in heaven. My philosophy, which permeates my life both professional and private, is that if you have the data then you can look at it; if you don't have the data you can not look at it. You can not predict the future value of data. You can predict that if you don't save data then you will need it in the future in a most desperate way. Folks at work (I am a developer) that think my ideas are silly invariably come asking for that email they deleted a while back, or for that source file that I backed up from the mainframe to my pc, or for the system logs that I backed up so they can do the trend analysis, etc. Now....if you don't have space then you don't have space. But, if you do have space (and especially a really good search engine) then it is silly not to save the data. That said - I currently have 5 invites for gmail. :cool: Quote nothing unreal exists .NET Framework Homepage ~ Visual C# Spec ~ C++/CLI Spec ~ Visual Basic .NET Spec
ThePentiumGuy Posted January 11, 2005 Author Posted January 11, 2005 Pretty nice ;). I haven't deleted a single mail yet. -The Pentium Guy Quote My VB.NET Game Programming Tutorial Site (GDI+, Direct3D, Tetris [coming soon], a full RPG.... you name it!) vbprogramming.8k.com My Project (Need VB.NET Programmers) http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/ResolutionRPG
Rick_Fla Posted January 11, 2005 Posted January 11, 2005 http://isnoop.net/gmailomatic.php If you want to give them away :) Quote "Nobody knows what I do until I stop doing it."
Richard Crist Posted January 11, 2005 Posted January 11, 2005 Hmmm.... http://isnoop.net/gmailomatic.php If you want to give them away :) Well....given my attachment to gmail I don't want to just give them away to just ANYBODY. I want it to mean something. :eek: Quote nothing unreal exists .NET Framework Homepage ~ Visual C# Spec ~ C++/CLI Spec ~ Visual Basic .NET Spec
ThePentiumGuy Posted January 11, 2005 Author Posted January 11, 2005 Well....given my attachment to gmail I don't want to just give them away to just ANYBODY. I want it to mean something. :eek:Same. -The Pentium Guy Quote My VB.NET Game Programming Tutorial Site (GDI+, Direct3D, Tetris [coming soon], a full RPG.... you name it!) vbprogramming.8k.com My Project (Need VB.NET Programmers) http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/ResolutionRPG
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