It looks like the space limit in my Gmail email account is now 1,000 GB (one million megabytes):
My guess is that this increase is in response to Yahoo’s announcement that their free email users will get 100mb space. As if it wasn’t enough already? 
Who knows if it’ll stay this way? In any case, feel free to send me an email: technician at gmail dot com (no spam please; I already get it).
Update: If you don’t already have an account, you can get a Gmail invite here.
Match 19, 2006 update: I was thinking of closing comments, but now that I have Paged Comments, it looks okay. I’ll leave it open, at least for the time being. So you can discuss Gmail here. But I really think that it’s much better to discuss in the Gmail forum instead.
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Pingback from Elliot Lee's Blog » Search Terms - May 2004 on 6/13/2004 at 8:55 pm
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I think you’re right. Google is trying to show its muscle after Yahoo increased their storage limit and Lycos announced they are the first to offer 1GB of space (since Google is still beta).
I’m not complaining though, because at this rate we’ll never have to delete an e-mail again.
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I thought Spymac claimed to be the first to offer 1GB space?
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In the article I read they said, “Additionally, Spymac, a Web-hosting company for Macintosh aficionados, has announced a free 1GB service, but it is much less well-known.”
I don’t understand how their claim has to do with being well-known or not, but hey, that’s marketing. You can say whatever you want.
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If they’re using bzip2 with a dictionary that encompasses their entire massive email database, then they can compress most emails ridiculously small. Very nifty stuff, I’m glad to see them raising the bar. The problem isn’t how much storage we have, anymore — it’s starting to be about how efficiently we can use it.
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oops.
i uploaded a mail folder (1000 msgs) and an HTML email with 7 photos and my limit dropped back to 1000M.
dont trip the filter!
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Heh. I just took a screen of my terabyte only to have them take it right back! Dang!
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I have tried to analyze the new limit but it still baffles me
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My terabyte went away on its own, no action from me. I wonder whether it was a bug or a subtle trial balloon.
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it was only for a while..
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“You are currently using 0 MB (0%) of your 1000000 MB.”
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oh cripes! it just went back down to 100mb, did this happen to you?
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sorry, down to 1000 (sorry for the unnecessary comment.)
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Trackback from Search Engine Roundtable on 5/19/2004 at 6:02 am
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It is ridiculous that Google gets tons of press for high storage allowances when skizzle.com has been doing this for years, and does it using real file uploads and file folders with no current storage limits. Even the Clubs are not limited on storage. Encouraging people to abuse the concept of E-mail for the sake of file storage (which is what it will be used for) is ridiculous. Get real anytime, anywhere storage and then some with a SKIZZLE account.
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Trackback from Karanbir Singh - Thinkability on 5/19/2004 at 6:55 am
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I was just curious, how much does this cost google.com.
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just dropping by to say that mine dropped on its own with no action on my part. they were probably just testing something
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Dude, did you know your blog is mentioned on CNet News.com? Nice job mate. Here’s the story:
Google tests waters with terabyte e-mail limit -
About Spymac: has anyone tried to open a 1GB mail account with them? I was not able to get more than 350 megs.
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Please could someone send me a invitation to test GMail?
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Trackback from Mercurial on 5/19/2004 at 9:30 am
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So how does one go about getting a Gmail account? Their FAQ says “only offering Gmail as part of a preview release and limited test”. Is there any way for someone to join?
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The 1 GB free spymac account is for everybody not just Mac users, I don’t have a Mac and it has been working fine for me.
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