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Old 05-18-2004, 05:06 PM   #1
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Lycos announced today that they are beating everyone in the race to provide free 1GB mail service! Wait a minute, the Lycos service isn’t free. Not sure how Lycos plans on competing with the twenty other companies doing the same thing for free, but hey…they’ll be first!

European Web portal giant Lycos has followed Google and Yahoo into the race to provide e-mail users with massive amounts of storage, and it claims to be beating these rivals already.
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Old 05-19-2004, 01:36 AM   #2
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I heard that Yahoo is also upping the amount of space for the pay account-holders. Interesting what GMail has done already, without even being released to the public.
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Old 05-19-2004, 04:34 PM   #3
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Hey, has anyone been up to date on when these 1GB email storages for free are going to be available? I know that I want to see about GMail, since Google has traditionally been really reliable.

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Yahoo will also up amounts for non-paying accounts too, Andy, to about 100MB from what I have heard.

I thought spymac had the first 1GB email?

Gmail has been doing tests with 1TB of space (and that's not a typo, it's one terabyte).
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Yahoo just *dropped* the space on new free acoounts from 6mb to 4mb - but the bulk mail folder no longer counts toward the quota.
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Gmail has been doing tests with 1TB of space (and that's not a typo, it's one terabyte).
...why?? Whos gonna use 1TB of space for emails!?
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That an insane amount of space. I don't see how they could pull that off. Think of the number of users there would be (tens of thousands, maybe), then think of how many HDDs and machines would be needed, in addition to how much physical floor space they would take up. They would need a warehouse and their own chain of banks.
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...why?? Whos gonna use 1TB of space for emails!?
I mean - 1TB is about right isn't it? That means there can be 1000 accounts, granted that everyone will use up their full 1GB (which in itself, should be hard). I still even find it hard to fill up 20 MB of space - how is 1000 MB going to be used :-p



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yea, wasn't spymac first, I have an account with them.
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talk about keeping up with the joneses..
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yea, wasn't spymac first, I have an account with them.
Yep, they were the first one to make it available.
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I'm not sure how much space is on my Hotmail account but I know I have never come close to filling it up. Even when I had 300 messages in my inbox. I can't imagine what I would do with 1GB of email space.
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Hotmail has 2MB of storage, I believe. I keep filling up my account ever week or two.
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