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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.
-------------------- Picard: Mr. Crusher, what's our maximum speed this week? Wesley: [checking manual] Uh, 9.4, sir. Picard: Very good. Take us to Warp 9.8 then. Wesley: Aye, sir. Warp 9.2 it is.
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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.
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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.
-------------------- "It speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow, it's not all going to be over with a big splash and a bomb, that the human race is improving, that we have things to be proud of as humans." -Gene Roddenberry about Star Trek
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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!
-------------------- Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.
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True, which means I can have more sex than the straight couple.
-------------------- "It speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow, it's not all going to be over with a big splash and a bomb, that the human race is improving, that we have things to be proud of as humans." -Gene Roddenberry about Star Trek
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There will be no shriveling of seal vaginas on my watch! They are a protected species (spee-sees, phon., ed. note).
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