Anyone have gmail? I love it!

[d.a.]

True dat! Still, without some sort of email client integration using PGP is annoying, imho.

Moreover, not many of my friends use PGP, and explaining it to them is not my idea of fun.

Best regards
-d.a.

That's exactly right.

So could't you just PGP everything in gmail?

That would be a cool way to use 1gig of storage without giving up
anything.

peace . . .

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[Triggerhappy99679]

ok heres my dumb question...lets say i get bored one evening and sign up for like 100 Gmail accounts..do i really get 100 gigs of storage? (ive been flooded, robbed and virused a bunch the last few years and im so tired of scanning everything again everytime i loose multiple hard drives)...have hd and bandwidth really become that cheap (how come no free web page hosting from google instead? other than blogger)

have fun
Dylan
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[Riaan Jutte]

do i really get 1 gigs of storage?

Ok it is a rainy Sunday and I'm bored, so here goes.... ;-)

I think the most likely scenario is probably that Google will store your email on compressed volumes and expect your text emails to be compressable by at least 50%.

Lets say they provide for 3 or so typical categories of users:

Category A: 50% of users who will never use more than 100mb.
Category B: 25% of users that will never use more than 500Mb.
Category C: 25% that will actually use 1GB.

Based on that figures and with for example 1 terabyte of uncompressed storage available on their servers, they can promise 1GB of space to:

Category A: 50% of 1 terabyte @ 10% = 5000 users.
Category B: 25% of 1 terabyte @ 25% = 1000 users.
Category C: 25% of 1 terabyte @ 100% = 250 users.

In total this is 6250 users. If they can compress the emails by 50%, they can increase the amount of users to around 9375 users using only 1 terabyte, or over 9 users per gigabyte.

I think there will be some angst at Google when, for example, photographers start using Google to store their most important shots while on holiday. These images are of course uncompressable, and will throw their calculations completely out of whack.

BTW. if I made any glaring calculation errors, it's probably because I only crawled into my house @ 4am this morning after a night out, so forgive me... ;-)