I just have some question... How is Google going to pull off Gmail? Obviously it will become huge, IMO, and everyone will flock to it. I know every user will not use their gigabyte, but the bandwidth must be incredible! Any thoughts on this?
I know Google has become rather wealthy too...
-dav
I am ordering you to have an operational A-S email server in two weeks that every A-S member can use.
Originally posted by wizard@Jun 13 2004, 10:08 PMI am ordering you to have an operational A-S email server in two weeks that every A-S member can use.
Sorry to hijack your thread dav lol,
Not sure about EVERY A-S member 
Off-T: @ Ti - Then who? /eyes Timmie
In other words, will I?
On-T: As previously mentioned, it will be ad based. Just like the search engine. You have to think about the traffic they already attract. I am sure they have plenty of money left over from advertisements that they can last a while (ask Timmie about the money from the ads here /eyes Timmie 
). Then probably a year down the road, add a paid subscription.
Does Gmail have a Gspot? 
I had to do it.
Back on topic, I heard that the GB of space was for only a certain amount of members? Like first come, first serve.
i read somewhere it only is costing them about $2/gb...
+ the other thread about the tb email offer gave good reasoning about how they probably will work... if you have 1000 members, that doesn't mean you need 1000gb the first day you open up the service.
I got a gmail invite if someone wants it.
Its nothing great if you ask me. You can't even have Timan@gmail.com because its less than 6 char.
Originally posted by Timan@Jun 13 2004, 08:47 PMYou can't even have Timan@gmail.com because its less than 6 char.
I hear the shrieks of death from dav. His soul has died.
:console:
Originally posted by Timan@Jun 13 2004, 09:47 PMI got a gmail invite if someone wants it.
if you haven't received any requests for it yet, i'd be happy to take it off your hands... :naughty:
Originally posted by wizard@Jun 13 2004, 07:50 PMI hear the shrieks of death from dav. His soul has died.
:console:
I already gots a gmail account.. I know, the 6 char limit is meh..
<- ilovebeing at gmail.com
Originally posted by wookietv@Jun 14 2004, 04:07 AMif you haven't received any requests for it yet, i'd be happy to take it off your hands... :naughty:
:naughty: you have to send me an invite though :naughty:
I beta test gmail....
The gig is mostly all for promotional reasons. They limit attachments to 10 mb, which means to fill up your gig you'd have to send out over 100 emails all containing 10 mb attachments. That's not happening for anyone real soon, unless you made it your goal to do so. Also, when I tried to send a 5 mb file to someone it took forever and a half to upload. Could be cause the servers were swamped, or cause its still in beta, but I have a feeling they are going to limit upload and download speeds as to discourage large attachments. If they do that, then no one will ever use up even close to their 1 gig, and google won't need much more space or bandwidth than any other service, but their popularity would seemingly be enormous.
I got some invites today... Traded one for 2 years hosting (2gb bandwidth, 350mb storage)
muahahaha
google seems to be going in 10 different directions these days, not to mention the impending IPO.
i guess google isn't just that nice little search engine anymore...
oh and i wonder if timmie will try to compete with gmail - 1gb per mailbox???
Well it still looks like a nice little search engine, but now we all know what a corporate beast they are!
Mind you, have you seen how amazing their webcrawler thing is? The google search engine re-crawls and re-indexes their entire database every four weeks. Thats "4,285,199,774" pages according to their front page. 
Not only is the space amazing, but also the code they use for it, the php and all that. It runs very well. Smooth, fast, groups convos, very easy on the eyes. I would say that gmail is a winner.
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