Why Gmail?

[hsadan]

I'm curious to know...why would people need 1000MB worth of email space? 100MB from yahoo is a lot, isn't 1000 overdoing it? what kind of emails do you receive, eh? :bad:
of course there's always the reason of "why not?", I mean, since it's free, why not just go for it.
I think google should instead come up with an online storage system. 1GB of online space. for free. And they wouldn't have to compete with other mail providers (well it's a good thing they pushed yahoo to 100MB and possibly hotmail to 25MB)
so..what would you use 1000MB of email storage for? :)
i know it's a little ironic to be posting this after i have requested for one, but i'm just curious to know what everyone is gonna use their gmail for :P

[Mik3]

Never delete messages... ever. Just incase...

My SBC Yahoo account was just upgraded from 100MB to 2GB!

Whoohoooo

[mansour]

competition i guess!
"why should i sign up with yahoo, if i can get more email storage free from google?"
otherwise:
"they both are the samething, i'll just sign up with yahoo since more people has it!"

but i do recieve large files everyonce in a while. it comes in handy ;)

[mdipi]

I think people like GMail for more reasons other than just the fact that its 1GB of e-mail space.

I for one use it for the handy search feature, the fast connections, the pretty, non-ad interface (well just text ads every now and then), i mean my list goes on and on as to why I like it, the fact that they slapped 1GB tag onto it just made it so much better.

You might want to check this out though: http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com

[mansour]

"governmental request", everything was going fine untill this sucker kicked in, wtf is going on??!

hansel, please tell me that this article i just read is nothing but a "myth"?

[minimalistik]

mansour, check out the thread by Reland who posted about Gmail's issues with user privacy.

[andr.in]

because we all love google! :thumb:

[hsadan]

Interesting article, Hansel!

good point about competition, mansour. however, that means our local isp's are gonna get busted too, eh? Nobody would be attracted to their email offers anymore :(
I too receive large files once in a while...but definitely not often enough to fill up even 100MB, and I've never received an email as big as 500MB (is that even possible?) ;)

syko ... the link in your sig is a similar case as hansel's link ;)
and i've been using Firefox since it was still a bird