I just went to check my Yahoo! e-mail account and got a page notifying me of their new streamlined design and a 100MB quota. The bad news is that it now looks even uglier; the good news is that I now have 99.5 more megabytes of storage I'll never use. I suppose I'd be more excited if I made more use of it, but I really don't. A nice move on their part, I guess, since anyone who wants one of those large Gmail accounts either has to know someone who can invite them or buy one from the thousands of auctions currently on eBay. I smell like carrot.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
It's Yahoo!'s answer to Gmail. Although Yahoo! probaby *doesn't* scan all your email to give you 'personalized' ads.
Posted by Tora Ziyal (Member # 53) on :
Thanks to Yahoo! and Gmail, I now have a total of 3 GB of web email space. Yahoo Mail Plus (which comes with my DSL service) gives you 2 GB of space and no graphic ads. I don't know what I'm gonna do with all of it.
Gmail is a friggin GODSEND. Most people only hear about the 1 GB space and the targeted text ads, but after actually using it (I got my account through Blogger), I have no doubt Gmail is the best web email service I've ever used. The conversation system groups together all the replies to an email almost like a forum thread (I'd wished that emails could do this for YEARS). You can make quick replies by clicking an empty textbox below an email, which turns into a reply form without loading another page. Your account auto-refreshes itself as long as you're signed in, so you know when new emails come in. You archive your emails using labels, which essentially works the same way folders do, except you can give a particular email more than one label. And there are keyboard shortcuts.
These things might not be completely revolutionary, but they vastly improved my experience of email. For that, Google can target-ad me all they want. Although I've only seen ads in the longer emails I've received, like newsletters. Even my long conversations full of short emails don't get ads.
And now Yahoo! users have indirectly benefited from Gmail's existence. Competition is good.
Posted by JC Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
I've never recieved an e-mail larger than 500k. And then I deleted it.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
I would steal the babies of anyone who could upload a 50MB attachment without going clinically insane.
Posted by Tora Ziyal (Member # 53) on :
Do those people have special babies?
Posted by JC Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
People who e-mail 50MB attachments have never had sex, so no.
Because it is doubtlessly some game patch or some computer technology.
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
I've sent out a 82MB file via AOL and SBC Global before but I still have great sex. And I sent out my entire database of Star Trek: Bridge Commander ships and No One Lives Forever 2 files.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge: I still have great sex.
quote:...my entire database of Star Trek: Bridge Commander ships...
Conflict!
Posted by JC Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
It is sort of disheartening that someone not only had a database of Bridge Commander ships, but that someone else wanted them.
I dunno.
Some fat programmer in a beanbag chair made those names up.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"I've sent out a 82MB file via AOL and SBC Global before but I still have great sex."
Yeah, but you're not going to get babies that way, so I'm not sure it counts.
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
True, which means I can have more sex than the straight couple.
Posted by JC Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
Pregnancy shrivels penises and seals vaginas now?
Posted by Nim the Fanciful (Member # 205) on :
There will be no shriveling of seal vaginas on my watch! They are a protected species (spee-sees, phon., ed. note).
Posted by JC Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
Sometimes it's spee-shees, or spee-she's.
Posted by Toadkiller (Member # 425) on :
Oh join the club.
seal, club, get it?
Posted by Nim the Fanciful (Member # 205) on :
Tehre's the Lions' Club and the whatnot, but I've never heard of no seal's club.
JC Ultra Unique Handle Magnus: That is why I specified it, to make the reconnexion. But in my own direxion.
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
Yeah - we're with BT Yahoo! (upgraded automatically from BT Internet) and I also have a Yahoo! account. Noticed the changes - connection (dial-up) was crap and kept cutting out.
The other interesting thing was that the main account holder (my Dad) got a e-mail saying that he had -2GB of storage and he was using 0GB of it and that he couldn't access his e-mails until he had cleared his account a bit.
Fucking hilarious - not.
Well, I've upgraded my PC (with one or two false starts) and BT & Yahoo! appear to have finished their upgrades. I like the upgrade as it now means that I don't have to worry as much when I'm away from holiday and that bloody annoying spam that sometimes gets past the filters. Still it would have been nice for BT & Yahoo! to tell us in advance what was happening and it would have saved us some unwanted hastle. It was kind of them to give us such extras though. Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
quote:Originally posted by deadcujo: the good news is that I now have 99.5 more megabytes of storage I'll never use.
Heh. I think I got up to 10% of the previous 6MB but that was only because I didn't check my email in about a month. I don't need 6 much less 100 since I either save or delete stuff instead of keeping it in my mailbox.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Wow. It's bigger. Loaded faster over dialup too. Cool. Nice to have a usable backup.
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
I used to fill up my yahoo all the time, but that was when I was on an Email RPG
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
quote:Originally posted by Captain Boh: I used to fill up my yahoo all the time
Kinky.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Speaking of e-mail things, I've got two Gmail account invites, if anyone wants one. Send me a private message.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I'm out of invites now.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Damn it!
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Whoever got [email protected] will pay dearly, I tell you. Mainly when the spambots find this post.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Um... Lee Kelly perhaps? One that's not you?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Unheard of!
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
As much as I hate people who call their children silly names like "Apple" (I am very disappointed in you, Chris), having an ever so slightly uncommon name does have it's advantages.
Posted by Ultra Klackrent Zlatan Magnus (Member # 239) on :
Thank goodness someone did not take [email protected].
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I bet it's that bastard worked at the DTI. The fucker will rue the day, I tell you. . .
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Do they only do firstname.lastname addresses? Could it be that someone named Kelly Lee got it?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Firstname.lastname is Google's default suggestion for your address, but you can change it to whatever you please, as far as I know. For example... Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Whoever is willing to pay $10000 or even $5000 for an email address should not be allowed to function in society.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Dude, that is like primo ideaspace! If I was Jerry Bruckheimer I would pay three times that, and then, for the Bad Boys 3 campaign? OH MAN. I think we all know where that would go.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Festus, eh? That's less than an hour from here. With $10 000, he could probably buy, like, a dozen meth labs.
Posted by Nim the Fanciful (Member # 205) on :
I need Gmail as much as I need a hole in the heads. What a stupid word, anyway. Why not simply "G-Mail"??
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Well, no-one ever writes "e-mail" anymore, do they?
quote:Originally posted by TSN: Do they only do firstname.lastname addresses? Could it be that someone named Kelly Lee got it?
I think the idea is that this could be a rare opportunity to get a normal, proper, respectable email address. Not one made up of silly words, or one that has numbers added to the end. A good, official looking one that everyone will remember because, hay, it's your name.
It's certainly looks better on my CV than "SentVeg" does.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Hopefully you don't still have the name field set to "Jimmy the Sentient Vegetable"?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Maybe I should put my ship's email address on eBay. For $9,999.99 you can be [email protected] Now there's a rare opportunity!
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Now I have six more, if anyone else wants one. Let me know your name and current e-mail address, if you do.
Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: Well, no-one ever writes "e-mail" anymore, do they?
I do.
Before they opened it up for people to test and whore for money, I was sure they'd use the googlemail.com domain they acquired a couple years ago. I wonder if they have any plans to make use of it.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by deadcujo:
quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: Well, no-one ever writes "e-mail" anymore, do they?
I do.
You are strange and confusing though.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Now I have six more, if anyone else wants one. Let me know your name and current e-mail address, if you do.
Wait a second...you got three invites (like I did), used them, and now they've given you another six? Crazy. And why haven't I had another 6?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I am a Trusted User, they tell me.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Huh. I'm the I'm Feeling Lucky for Phasers, and I didn't get any invites. I may start using Altavista instead, again.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Now I have six more, if anyone else wants one. Let me know your name and current e-mail address, if you do.
Any idea what the algorithm is for generating invites? I mean, probably a big bit is how early you got your account, but are there other factors like how much you use the account, how many different people to email (or receive from), etc. Or is it purely, a fixed number per unit time?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I know there's been some discussion about that elsewhere, but I don't believe Google itself has said anything about it.
I didn't get my account particularly early, nor have I used it much at all. I did hand out all three invitations within a fairly short period of time, and perhaps that has something to do with it.
Posted by Tora Ziyal (Member # 53) on :
I've got one more Gmail invitation in my current alotment. The first person to pm me gets it.
And if you'd like an invitation to Orkut and I haven't already sent you one, you can pm me too (these are basically unlimited).
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Orkut?
Posted by Tora Ziyal (Member # 53) on :
Orkut is Google's social networking service and is by invitation only to promote an "organic" growth (unlike Friendster, which you can just sign up for). www.orkut.com Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
Orkut is nice. I've found a lot of hot chicks on Orkut that I'll never speak to.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :
Hmmm, and here I was thinking that Orkut seemed rather contrived and unrealistic. Well, what do you know...
Posted by Ultra Klackrent Zlatan Magnus (Member # 239) on :
It's too bad the internet sucks, is what I say.
Posted by Nim the Fanciful (Member # 205) on :
Like Clint in the Academy-award winning Magnus Force; "The system stinks, but until something better comes along, I'm sticking to it."
Also, "if they could shoot like that, I wouldn't care if the whole precinct was queer."
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
quote:Originally posted by deadcujo: I just went to check my Yahoo! e-mail account and got a page notifying me of their new streamlined design and a 100MB quota. The bad news is that it now looks even uglier; the good news is that I now have 99.5 more megabytes of storage I'll never use. I suppose I'd be more excited if I made more use of it, but I really don't. A nice move on their part, I guess, since anyone who wants one of those large Gmail accounts either has to know someone who can invite them or buy one from the thousands of auctions currently on eBay. I smell like carrot.
Hotmail wins:
------------------------------------------ In fact, you'll receive 125 times your current email storage with the introduction of a 250 MB inbox as well as the ability to send attachments up to 10 MB. ------------------------------------------
Think of all the penis enlargement ad-options I will have to choose from now....
Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
In terms of storage, perhaps, but I have a feeling Hotmail will remain convoluted to the majority of its users. I'm still not sure how Hotmail has remained so popular despite its 2MB limit. How did they ever expect me to remain a happy customer if I always ran out of space to store my blinkies in?
Posted by Nim the Fanciful (Member # 205) on :
What's a blinky? Is it like a terry blanket with little diodes in it?
Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
Blinkies! Posted by Nim the Fanciful (Member # 205) on :
Help!! Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Hotmail is the "cool" place to be. And so many people use MSN Messenger, with which people tend to not realize you don't need a Hotmail address to use.
Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
Word. *hugs Passport*
Posted by Ultra Klackrent Zlatan Magnus (Member # 239) on :
MSN Messenger is for fourteen year old girls, and useless bags of shit.
Posted by Nim the Fanciful (Member # 205) on :
But fourteen year old girls don't deserve the company of useless bags of shit. They are young and full of life! Are you sure about this?
Posted by Ultra Klackrent Zlatan Magnus (Member # 239) on :
Sure like a motherfucker.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"MSN Messenger is for fourteen year old girls..."
Yeah, well, did you see those "blinkies"?
Of course, even if Hotmail has 2.5 times as much space as Yahoo, Yahoo still wins just on the ground that three-quarters of your Hotmail space will fill up with spam on the first day.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
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