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.
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!
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.
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.
I thought Spymac claimed to be the first to offer 1GB space?
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.