1 GB freemail is for wimps, how about 1 TB?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-06-12 05:24pm

Well, 976 GB... close enough.

"youvegotpost.com"

I can only imagine that they'll die within a few weeks, seeing as how Something Awful has already found them out. Should be a fun ride in the meantime.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-06-12 05:27pm

Or perhaps now, the link is dead.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-06-12 05:35pm

Try it again. (I fucked up the link.)

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-06-12 06:15pm

Holy fuck. I'm signing up for that.

EDIT: SHIT! This is amazing!

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-06-13 05:30am

Holy fuck!

I'll say it again.

Holy fuck!

I think I'm gonna be saying that for a while...

... Holy fuck!

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-06-13 09:10am

Damn, this is awesome. So many things I deleted could've been stored here.

Edit: I notice in the TOS, it's only for Canadian residents/citizens? Hopefully, it's not so!

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-06-13 12:03pm

Where do you see 1TB?

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-06-13 12:15pm

Dalton wrote:Where do you see 1TB?

If you signed up, look in your folders section.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-06-13 01:24pm

WHY does anyone need 1TB of e-mail space? Can you possibly get that much spam post within a lifetime?!

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2004-06-13 01:31pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:WHY does anyone need 1TB of e-mail space? Can you possibly get that much spam post within a lifetime?!

Their thinking of using it for online/piracy storage.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-06-13 01:50pm

WHY does anyone need 1TB of e-mail space?

Remember when, in school, they told you that there's no such thing as a stupid question?

They lied.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-06-13 02:28pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:WHY does anyone need 1TB of e-mail space? Can you possibly get that much spam post within a lifetime?!

I believe in the future, e-mail shall start coming in the range of one gigabyte a piece and we are preparing for it.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-06-13 04:00pm

Didn't Google announce Gmail would be boosted to 1 TB?

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-06-13 05:52pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:WHY does anyone need 1TB of e-mail space?

Allow me to show you some similar questions:

"WHY does anyone need to buy a game the day it comes out?"
"WHY does anyone need wait in line for days to see a cool movie?"
"WHY does anyone need pay hundreds of dollars to buy a team jersey?"
"WHY does anyone need a Hummer?"

You sir, are clearly reasonable, and not a megalomanic. I do not see why you are a member of this board.

People like me don't need a reason. We just do it because we can. Why else do you think I swapped out the motor in my old lawnmower- from 6 horsepower to 30. Sure, it was near impossible to control, and annihilated the flowerbed before jamming and almost falling apart, but it was FUN. And that's all that matters.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-06-13 05:57pm

Think like Tim "the toolman" Taylor. Do you need a reason to get cool shit?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-06-13 06:05pm

Seems too good to be true. Anyone remember free internet?

Besides, I'm happy with yahoo+fetchyahoo perl script into my local inbox. I would never be able fill one TB over dialup in my lifetime anyway.

Meest · Post by **Meest** » 2004-06-13 06:35pm

I only see 20MB of space available

Disk Space Usage: 3.53 KB of 20.00 MB (0.0%)

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-06-13 06:37pm

Meest wrote:I only see 20MB of space available Disk Space Usage: 3.53 KB of 20.00 MB (0.0%)

That's weird, I have the same thing, but before it listed around 976GB.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-06-13 06:39pm

My ego is somewhat hurt...

I guess I shall shut my goddamn mouth and get me some storage which will come in handy. I expect the next few years will see spam movies coming in. Want to buy the new Viagra beater? Watch this sample porn movie collection!

I read the ToS, seems to be some new UK company who obviously are BATSHIT INSANE enough to give everyone a tape-drive sized portion of memory for e-mail.

Fuck Hotmail, I'm getting this.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-06-13 06:44pm

Soontir C'boath wrote:
Meest wrote:I only see 20MB of space available Disk Space Usage: 3.53 KB of 20.00 MB (0.0%)
That's weird, I have the same thing, but before it listed around 976GB.

Maybe the LSD wore off...

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-06-13 07:13pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Soontir C'boath wrote:
Meest wrote:I only see 20MB of space available Disk Space Usage: 3.53 KB of 20.00 MB (0.0%)
That's weird, I have the same thing, but before it listed around 976GB.
Maybe the LSD wore off...

Perhaps so, but at least it's still better than hotmail.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-06-14 02:09am

Awesome. Now I can email the entire contents of my hard drive.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-06-14 02:17am

evilcat4000 wrote:Awesome. Now I can email the entire contents of my hard drive.

Perhaps you could operate your whole computer out of that?

Eg: Hold games in you email account, and just download them back to you computer when you feel like playing it?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-06-14 02:23am

I'm only getting 20MB also. Guess someone fucked up.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-06-15 11:51pm

UPDATE: It seems that the people running this email host are complete idiots, and that Something Awful forumites advanced the inevitable downfall of an incompetantly-managed site whose webmaster reads your email, then denies that there is any "international law"; whose webmaster bans and deletes any accounts pertaining to Gmail in any capacity, and lies very often.

For the goons here at SDnet, the relevant thread is in the SH/SC forum.