Google this, google that. Everyone’s pants are in a knot over these 1 gigabyte G-Mail accounts. What’s the fuss about? I have 200 gigabytes of space on my hard drive – most of which I won’t use before I get a new computer in 4 or 5 years time (and in 2008 I’ll probably have 3 or 4 terabytes of space to play with). So when someone sends an email to me with content that I want to keep, I’ll store it on my own computer. Why should I store it online? Why do I need another email account? There’s plenty of space on modern computers. Honestly, 1 gigabyte isn’t that big these days. Hype.
Having said that, I forgot about the other 5.8 billion people on the planet who don’t happen to have their own computers. They might find it handy.
Ahh, root it. I’m starting to confuse myself. Enjoy a googlefight anyway.
I quite like this idea. I’ve got access to a GMail account, but I don’t think I’ll fire it up until I decide whether I can use it effectively. At the moment I use pop2web to check my mail when I’m not at my computer, but it doesn’t store an archive. If GMail can do that, I’ll use it.