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just saw this on cnn
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While it does sound interesting, I don't see any reason to switch from my Hotmail account to this 'Gmail'.
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Now why would i wanna store all the crap i find in my mailbox every day ?
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Yeah right, 1 gig of free storage my ... . It would also mean I would find 1 gig of spam in my mailbox.
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Exactly. I saw the report about this on CNN, and before they even got to the bad part I asked "what's the catch?" Then I heard about them essentially monitoring the email to figure out which advertisers to spam you with...oops, I mean put links out there for you to click, then I knew it was definitely not a good deal. I've finally gotten my hotmail down to 2 spams a day (from 10+ before I could get the damn filtering to work right). Why would I want to go with a company that already announces up front that they are going to use a "nicer" version of spamming?
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unfortunatly, its so unlikely and since its april 1st i doubt its true :( that wouldve been sweet tho :D |
Hmmmm it's probably true about google starting an email service but not sure about the 1 gig storage. If they had 50 million users like yahoo mail....not sure if they have 50 million gigs lol! I'm guessing even if it is true, probably only the first 1000 users will get 1 gig of storage or something to encourage uptake.
LOL I find it funny that they are surprised that people are unwilling to pay for email services. Why should they pay when they have been free for so long? However, on a related note, there is one instance in which I'd accept paying for emails. I recently read an article about an idea to charge per email sent but only after, say, the first 250 in a month. This means that most people will pay nothing but spammers who send millions of emails at a time, will end up paying loads, so will be discouraged, hahaha! I like this idea AS LONG as the limit before paying starts is quite high. 1000 emails a month or something. |
They are going to offer the 2 gig of webspace with their new email account, but it's for 1,000 trial users according to The Screen Savers on TechTV.
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You can't get free hotmail accounts anymore can you? I use hotmail, AND Yahoo. may as well try and get a gmail. ;)
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You can last I heard, but they display this screen which implies you have to pay and hide the link to the free version somewhere. Nsty, but what do you expect from M$?
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