Did Jabbas April Fool joke lost to a better one?

[Erez]

No one is sure if this is a joke or not... but in any case google rocks!!

http://gmail.google.com/

read all about it... this is huge! if it true.. then its great news! if not.. then this is BY F-A-R the best april fools joke!!

[davmac]

wow, where did you hear about this? looks pretty legit, but seems too good to be true

[callen]

100mb, u can recieve some seriously large files with somethin like this!

[he7lius]

Well 1000MB??
If they get 1000 users, them 1000Gb = 1Tb :shock:
If they get 1000 000 users, them 1000Tb = 1Petabyte :shock: :shock:
If u think hotmail has 40 million users that a bit too much.

If real great, but it's hard to believe.
Read this and you can see it is very impressive.

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020208S0009

[novass]

1Petabyte :shock:

mmmmm.....petabyte.....mmmmmm

[BADMIHAI]

No way that is true!

[T-Bird]

it is very true since they anounced it over 2 weeks ago

[altezza]

it doesn't sound like a joke to me :)

[BADMIHAI]

it doesn't sound like a joke to me



I signed up, just in case it's not a joke.

[Zonda11]

SIGN UP and find out

[gigdy]

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[DeMoN]

you guys go ahead and sign up, I will wait. I still think it is too good to be free. I mean each of us could register a mail from them and create a @gropus and one would send the mail to @groups and all of us would get the big video off someone else's bandwidth. If it is true, then it will be going down pretty fast.

[FerrariFerrari]

After doing a quick search of the news on various search engines
I found over twenty different articles comferming that it is indeed
true. If it is an April fools joke it's quite elaborate 8), but I guess they
could pull it off. :? :) But without a doubt I believe that their is go-
ing to be a catch somewheres along the line.

[666fast]

It has to be a Aprils Fools thing. Seriously, just imagine the trillion different ways this could be abused.
The RIAA would have a lot of work to do! lol

[jon_s]

Pretty big if it is a joke! It is all in the papers e.t.c

[TT]

Well, what if the max size for every email, attachments included is 50 kb? ;) not much abuse possible in that case ;)

[fishfreek]

Its true. Unless of course they have been planning this for years. Do a whois lookup on gmail.com and you will see its owned by google and was registered years ago.

Ads will be inserted into e-mails thus the ad revenue. As with most other things google is counting that less than 1% of the accounts will ever use anywhere near the quota

[TT]

BTW, to have such big account would be a nightmare.. no idea why they think it's cool not to delete a single email LOL! Usefull emails are safer if sored in the PC or printed, useless ones go to the trash.. so really, no idea why to have such big account should be cool LOL.
Of course I have a couple of email accounts that are between 50 and 100 MB big.. way bigger than yahoo and similar free services.. and never really used more than 5 or 6 MB I think... (and it's already a lot!)

[fishfreek]

Pure marketing.

For those that get a ton of e-mails and acutally fill up the small quotas of hotmail or yahoo and find themselvs having a hard tiem parting with messages out of fear they might need them again.

Trust me there are people out there who are terified of deleting spam because they think they 'might need it' sometime.