I admit to periodic feelings of not being worthy of my gmail account.
covet…covet…covet…covet…aquire…stare at blankly
But I’ve only had it for a week, so there’s still time…
I’m in the process of updating all of the profiles for my online haunts with the new address. That’s a no-brainer.
I’ve also started feeding it google news alerts. Just a playfull tease at first. I’ve got 4 work related news alerts programmed (yes, I have no life), and I’m now buried in mountains of articles about phishers and online fraud.
But my true ambition for my gmail account is to use it to archive all of the jpegs, gifs, bitmaps, etc that I’ve received or sent over the years, out of all 4 of the computers I use regularly. I drool openly at the idea of the potentially freed resources.
Maximum attachment size is 10MB. Here’s hoping I can keep all of my images in decent viewable shape with that as a maximum compressed size. A brief description and date in the e-mail subject, and… magical chimes…a gig-sized catalog of quickly and easily searchable images.
I too pondered at the Gig of space, knowing that I could not possibly fill it with the usual amount of emails that I recieve. So I thought, and I thought, and I thought some more.*
I finally decided that a portion of the space would make a good back-up location to store those writings (papers, articles, fcition, poetry) of mine that I deem worthy. So, what to do with the other .9995 GB?
Because we all know that such queries are much more important than the GREs that I will be taking in less than 12 hours… :dubious:
I love my new Gmail account, now if only I could get an email sent there
I hate, hate, hate spam, and my friends tend not to be huge emailers.
Except my one friend that is obsessed with Al-Queda (sp?) websites. He has to be on some FBI list of some sort. He keeps sending me links to pages in Arabic with little Kalashnikov icons and such on them. One of the sites actually had a copy of the latest American be-headee’s Lockheed ID on it. But I digress, alot. Sorry.
Forgive me for horning in, but I’m pretty ignorant on the subject of gmail accounts. Google-provided e-mail, yeah? What’s the big fuss? High points? Low points? How does one get one? Why does one want one?
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[li]Google made it[/li][li]It’s free[/li][li]It comes with a gig of storage[/li][li]It’s new, so prime e-mail addresses are still available[/li][li]It is quasi-exclusive at this point, as they are still beta testing. First you had to sign up on a waiting list and hope that they’d give you an account, now they are dabbling in viral-word-of-mouth, giving existing users “invitations” that can be given away to a few interested parties at a time.[/li][/ul]
How…
Put on your best set of puppy-dog eyes and head to this thread, or you can buy one on eBay.
I’m starting to wonder why they don’t want you to delete old messages. Surely I don’t need to reference my dinner plans from 2 months ago. I’m sure it adds to their massive knowledge base somehow. :rolleyes:
How about… -foolishness? A guy on another board I frequent got one, and then posted the address and invited everyone to sign him up for newsletters and spam. He says it is an experiment to see how fast a gig of storage can be filled up with unwanted e-mail.
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An entity having information about me or my habits doesn’t necessarily concern me. What they do with that information and how they apply that knowledge is a different story.
I don’t implicitly trust Google, but I trust them more than most. They have done nothing but improve my online experience with each idea they’ve cooked up.
My hunch is that they’re simply trying to point out that their service is even more convenient, by showing us that we can indeed de-program the conditioned response to delete that we’ve all developed with our heretofore 10MB e-mail accounts.
Now that I’ve gotten my precious, precious gmail account (thanks, Siberia!,) I’m suddenly scared to leave my other email providers, whose spam protections range from great (Yahoo) to semidecent (my school.) I’ve even been thinking of funneling everything to my Yahoo account, to filter out the spam, then bounce everything from there to gmail, for the space and information management capabilities. I hate hate hate spam, and my paranoia about it has generally been rewarded - I first started getting small amounts of spam to my Yahoo account about six months ago, after having it for four years. I get almost nothing at my school account, which I keep pretty private.
Gilab, you might be interested in this http://gmail.prattboy.net/
It doesn’t look very good, but one can hope it will improve (it is still beta, after all).
The short answer is Google’s new free webmail with 1GB of storage and 10MB attachment limit. It gives you sponsored links that pertain to the content of your emails.
I started forwarding my regular email account to my Gmail account just for the spam filtering, and it works great. Gmail catches about 95% of my spam, compared to the ~50% that Thunderbird was catching. They also automatically bounce messages with executable files attached, which means 50% of the spam I was getting never even touches my inbox anymore.
