Apr
1
(2005)
GMail is Growing
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They weren’t kidding when they said they were increasing the mailbox size of every GMail account! Their login page jokes about planning to roll out “infinity +1″ gigabytes of emaily goodness. That was the April Fool’s part of the announcement. The rest of it goes basically “we plan to keep slapping hard drives into The Beast, so you’ll keep getting more room in your inbox, until the global marketplace has been drained of hard drives.” Or something like that.
My account, as of today, has already grown by half a gig.
Now, if it’s economical enough for GMail to be giving away essentially infinite storage, free of cost, why in the hell can’t IT give me more than 100MB of space on the campus mailserver (and that was only allowed after a letter from my boss begged them to give me more room).
Update: 24 hours later, and my account quota has grown to over 2 gigs…
Sep
21
(2004)
GMail Spam Filtering
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Just checked my GMail account - 176 spam messages neatly sorted and out of the way. Went through them all, and not a single false positive. Wow. Score one for the G-Men (and women)!
Aug
20
(2004)
GMail Invites Available
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Just logged into my GMail account, and it looks like I’ve got 4 invitations that I can give away. let me know if you want one. I won’t make anyone jump through hoops or anything. Karma will be involved somehow…
UPDATE: They’re all gone… I’ll post if I get more invites (but I’m not maintaining a waiting list or anything…)
UPDATE: DO NOT EMAIL ME FOR INVITES IF YOU FOUND THIS PAGE ON GOOGLE! I already regret putting the offer in an entry here. Any future invites I get will be dealt with off-blog, unless the freeloading leeches let up. Why do they have to wreck everything online?