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1. Comment - MSN to Boost E-Mail Storage Space

   (Jun 18, 2004 - 8:09 AM)

   I've often pondered about this myself. I have quite a few email accounts, both POP and web based, and I've run into issues with mail storage space before. My pop accounts are school and two free accounts from an ISP I used to have. I'm not sure what my university limits mailbox space to, but my pop accounts are about 10 megs. For the average PC user, or even power user, thats probably more than enough. But using just myself as an example:
   
   I create websites, graphics, spreadsheets, and various other files. I receive tons of emails and newsletters from various companies and I opt for the HTML letters instead of the boring plain text. You might not realize it but when your word documents start getting above the regular 3-6 pages of text, they begin to add up in size, especially if you import graphics into them. I find emailing my documents to my email address (usually hotmail) is great incase my floppy doesn't work, or the computer I'm using doesn't have a cdrom for some reason, or whatever might be the case. I design my sites completely in photoshop, save the psd file, and email it to a client. Sucks when I get a reply saying, "The file was too big so it wasn't saved. Can you mail it to me on a cd?" Hotmail also used to have it bad about locking your email account if it reached 100%. They then tried to force you to pay for larger space or you coud reactivate your account and lose all your emails. Thats not good if you subscribe to a lot of forums or newsletters and get spammed on top of this. Sometimes you just don't have time to check your email EVERY day. So for people like me, it'll be a great benefit to have a bunch of storage space for our emails.
   
   I'm really excited about this google mail deal. I just got my invite to beta test it yesterday. I've sent a few emails and I'm rather impressed. It was a little odd getting used to not seeing "Delete" as an immediate option, but instead "archive." Until these other guys can show me a better reason, I'm giving up on my hotmail and yahoo accounts, and only using my POP accounts when I have to (email address other than a free service). I love google services, all of them, so I'm sure this is gonna be a definate great tool for the public.