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April 1st, 2004, 10:20 AM
#1
King of the Mermaids
Google Mail + 1 Gig of free storage
This better not be an April fools Joke!!
http://gmail.google.com/
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April 1st, 2004, 10:22 AM
#2
Registered User
Originally Posted by Diver01
Hope not, I just signed up to be on their list.
The Moral Majority is neither.
Master Sargent - WOTPP
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April 1st, 2004, 12:09 PM
#3
Driver Terrier
Never, ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly."
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April 1st, 2004, 03:14 PM
#4
Registered User
Same here, it looks like it's at least worth trying.
It is too late to fix America via the Republicans or Democrats, and too early to start shooting the bastards.
Lex et Libertas -- Semper Vigilo, Paratus, et Fidelis
WOTPP Light Air Support Wing
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April 1st, 2004, 04:15 PM
#5
Registered User
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -Douglas Adams
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April 1st, 2004, 04:19 PM
#6
Registered User
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -Douglas Adams
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April 1st, 2004, 04:21 PM
#7
Registered User
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -Douglas Adams
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April 1st, 2004, 05:10 PM
#8
Registered User
Cool. Now bring on the IPO already!
Deliver me from Swedish furniture!
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April 2nd, 2004, 04:37 AM
#9
Yeah, but do you really want your e-mail available to Google so they can search it and give you "relevant" advertising? There's no privacy here whatsover...you're opening up everything someone sends you to be be searched, albeit supposedly only for you, so they can target you with sponsor ads. Even if it is supposedly only their computers doing the searching, I have a hard time willingly giving away that right.
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April 2nd, 2004, 06:02 AM
#10
Driver Terrier
Oh they can search my spam all they like
Never, ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly."
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April 2nd, 2004, 10:07 AM
#11
Registered User
Originally Posted by NooNoo
Oh they can search my spam all they like
Too true.
The Moral Majority is neither.
Master Sargent - WOTPP
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April 2nd, 2004, 10:13 AM
#12
Privacy advocates are concerned that there's one big flaw with Google Inc.'s free e-mail service: The company plans to read the messages.
LA TIMES reporting on Friday: The Internet search firm insists that it needs to know what's in the e-mails that pass through its system -- so that they can be sprinkled with advertisements Google thinks are relevant. After all, revenue from those targeted ads will pay for the Gmail service, which began a limited test Thursday, offering up to 500 times as much e-mail storage as competing Web e-mail programs from Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
The TIMES adds: The electronic letters won't be read by Google employees; computers will handle that chore. Nonetheless, the spector of seeing an ad for an antacid beside a message from a friend complaining about stomach pain is enough to make some people nervous about the e-mail service.
"There will undoubtedly be some folks that will see this and freak out," said Ray Everett-Church, chief privacy officer for TurnTide Inc., an anti-spam company in Conshohocken, Pa. The aggressive advertising strategy may put a damper on Google's biggest move yet away from its core business of Internet search. After reading the privacy policy on the Gmail website Thursday, consumer-rights groups began sending complaints to the privately held Mountain View, Calif., company and preparing to warn users to stay away.
"The privacy implications of going through and perusing a customer's e-mail to display targeted advertising could be the Achilles' heel for Google's services," said Jordana Beebe, the communications director for the Privacy Rights *************, an consumer group in San Diego.
The consternation caught Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president of products, off guard.
"I'm very surprised that there are these kinds of questions," he said Thursday.
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April 2nd, 2004, 12:45 PM
#13
Registered User
For a Gig of free Space...I think I can handle a few adds here and there...there only going to be text based anywaze...In some ways I think it could be helpful
If I were planning a trip to visit a friend in Florida man instant access to hotels in my email...sweet...
Does anyone know what the size limit of the file attachments will be?
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April 3rd, 2004, 07:05 PM
#14
Senior Member - 1000+ Club
Still waiting for information off them....
I'm in charge and I say we blow it up
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April 5th, 2004, 10:29 AM
#15
Registered User
Originally Posted by Taz Devil
Yeah, but do you really want your e-mail available to Google so they can search it and give you "relevant" advertising? There's no privacy here whatsover...you're opening up everything someone sends you to be be searched, albeit supposedly only for you, so they can target you with sponsor ads. Even if it is supposedly only their computers doing the searching, I have a hard time willingly giving away that right.
At first I was thinking no way... I don't want my e-mail read by Google or advertising as I would would not ever need that much space for e-mail... But then I began to think 1GB is slightly more than what I keep for updates, which at this point is slightly less than 700MB! It would be nice if I could just upload all my updates to Google that way when I get to play computer know-it-all with friends I can just access the updates at GMail...
Who cares if Google knows I have W2k SP4 or ForceWare 56.72!
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