Insane internet concepts

yesterday my wife receives notice, her email account has been upgraded.. she asks me "How big is 2 GB?" I tell her "to big for email, its gotta be a typo"

i check her account and this is what we see..



look in the top right side..

Upgrading your e-mail takes 2 gigs? They must have revamped the interfaced and changed the strange noises you hear when you log, changed the coding, put pop up blockers in, added ambient sound fxs, and ...

How the hell can you make an email up grade take two gigs!? That's generally obsesive for a UT game...

25 unread messages!?!? That's it?~! :rolleyes:

You should check my moms inbox... she has so many unread messages, that the unread messages counter... stopped counting

Yippie Ki Yay!

Pretty good actually. Paid Yahoo! users get a 2GB account, free users get a 100MB account. I like the whole concept :smile:

G.Ballblue said:
I can't really figure out what the interface is telling me with " 0% of 2 gigs"

it means silly ass, that the 25 unread messages, don't even add up to 0% of 2 gigs of space.

fraggard said:
Pretty good actually. Paid Yahoo! users get a 2GB account, free users get a 100MB account. I like the whole concept :smile:

with 2 gigs, you can email entire avi movies

I'd imagine there's a limit to the size a single email can be. :smile:

Alien_Sniper said:
I'd imagine there's a limit to the size a single email can be. :smile:

you can set outlook to break apart large files and sent the parts as individual e-mails.

2gigs isn't bad at all. if you find your short on hd space, you could always mail some stuff to yourself and store it in your in-box :smile:

Alien_Sniper said:
I'd imagine there's a limit to the size a single email can be. :smile:

Get GSplit or split files with WinZIP.

100mbs for free users of Yahoo! What? lol Maybe Ima switch. Beats hotmails 2mb limit.

It's probably a move to try to counter Google's new 1 GB free e-mail service (or to at least get ready to counter it when it actually goes public) ... I think.

Campaignjunkie said:
It's probably a move to try to counter Google's new 1 GB free e-mail service (or to at least get ready to counter it when it actually goes public) ... I think.

how can you counter something, when its implemented first CJ?

Google have sent out invites and gotten a lot of publicity already. I suppose it's more of a pre-emptive move though. :smile:

Campaignjunkie said:
It's probably a move to try to counter Google's new 1 GB free e-mail service (or to at least get ready to counter it when it actually goes public) ... I think.

New google service, called Gmail, would provide 1 gb of storage, but would "add" messages to your e-mails.

It will look like this: http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/screen2.html

no, thanks :smile:

It seems like they add in the forwarded message and replies, looks better then most mail systems.

Secondly, yahoo and hotmail add crap at the end of your emails already (which are annoying as hell, especially getting mail from one of those addresses on your phone)

hmmmm, 100 megs for free eh? whats the catch? hehehee, might just get one [when i can be bothered]

The catch is their spam filters suck goats.

Alien_Sniper said:
The catch is their spam filters suck goats.

?Que? I've never had much trouble... From the "[size=13]Fwd: Get Pills V1co/din ? xana|x| ? .V.alium + v1@gra Som|a| ( Pnterm.i.n tywdnqsfvecf" to the "[size=10][size=13]save up to 50% on prescription drugs" The filters generally work for me :/

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Well to be fair I've had the same account for years so it's probably on
a s**tload of lists. I stopped using it for anything important as
I used to get about 200 spam a day in my inbox and s**tloads more in my
bulk folder. I noticed I'm getting less nowadays now that they've
copped onto the way they were getting around the filters.

stop acknowledging emails, and the eventually stop coming.

i used to get 25 emails a day that promised me a dick like a horse in a week or some nonsense like that.. i have not received any spam email in almost 6 months now..

for a while there, i was getting suspicious as to my wife putting my name on some penis enlargement listings she either was not doing it, found someone else with an adequately sized member, or finally established that mine was doing fine.

in any event, the emails have ended.

I haven't opened any spam in about 3 years bud. :smile:

That's classic, Jon

My Yahoo e-mail does not append anything to my messages. Does this only apply if you use their web interface?

Goddammit. Looks like the double-post protection doesn't work with quick reply.

People who have written reviews of gmail seem to like it. One guy said that personal communications emails didn't get any adverts, and of the messages that did, all the links given seemed relevenat and actually useful to the topic being discussed.

I will definately give it a go. I mean it's free, so if it turns out to be not very good, who cares? It's like all these 'gmail will invade my privacy' people - you have to sign up to use the free service of your own free will! How can you do this, then moan about what you get?

How can you do this, then moan about what you get?

They're probably Americans. We whine like little bitches all the time.

Crono said:

How can you do this, then moan about what you get?

They're probably Americans. We whine like little bitches all the time.

1^st off, there is a distinct difference between "moaning" and "whining"

2^ndly, it has been my considerable experience that big bitches do both more often

Microsoft is expected to follow suit in this trend very soon. Personally I use hotmail solely for MSN which I find the best IM program for my needs. My friend got some Gmail invite from a random spanish guy, so as soon as he can invite someone, I'm in. :smile:

Gorbachev said:
, so as soon as he can invite someone, I'm in. :smile:

what is it, the Sam's club of email accounts

You have to either be the descendant of a member, or save the life of a member to be accepted.

I've got one of these g-mail accounts (I use blogger regularly, who are owned by Google, so I got a beta offer) and they're damned good actually. The concept is that you never have to delete an e-mail and can use the Google search engine to find any e-mail. Its a great system actually and the interface is nice. When it does go public I would recommend it.