RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Google Gmail...

[Jason Youngquist <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

This is quite interesting....

"You can terminate your account at any time, by going to the account
information page. We typically deactivate accounts within two business
days of such requests. You should be aware, however, that residual copies
of information may remain stored on our systems even after the deletion of
information or the termination of your account. "

http://www.google.com/gmail/help/privacy.html

All of those love emails that you sent to your girlfriend are archived on
Google indefinitely...

About outsourcing email to Google, not sure how companies would like it if
all of their semi-confidential email was still stored on Google's servers
even after an employee or the company went out of business and the
accounts were deleted.....

Sounds like the FBI and NSA would love to have a plugin that connects to
the Gmail service....Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "I read your
email"

http://www.jinxhackwear.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&productID=121


--Jason


On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Jonathan King wrote:

>
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Mike Miller wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Russell Horn wrote:
> >
> > > > > Fact or Fiction?
> > >
> > > http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html
> >
> > Almost sure to be fact -- they've done too much work for it to be fiction.
> > I got on their mailing list.  I want to try to sign up as soon as possible
> > to get a cool g-mail address!
>
> If this is a joke, it's a really, really, *really* elaborate joke.
> I actually did the math, and it's pretty clear that it would take
> even me like 10 years or so to fill up a 1 GB space.  (Calculation:
> 100 messages / day x 10 years x 365 days/year x 3000 bytes/message
> ~= 1 GB.)  Most accounts will contain much less than that (I'm
> having good thoughts about 50 MB).  So let's pretend they can fit 20
> users into 1 GB of space.  That's 20,000 users per TB, and a
> Terabyte of disk probably costs them a couple thousand on the
> outside in hardware.  If the cost of running the service is ten
> times the hardware cost per year, that gets me a total cost of $1
> per user per year.  *Maybe* I'm low by a factor of 10.  In that
> case, the cost per user is like $10 per year, or under $3 billion
> for every possible email user in the US.
>
> Now: do I think Google can generate that much in revenue from each
> email user or from advertisers wanting to reach such users?   OH
> yeah.  No problem.  Especially since I can guarantee that a lot of
> GMail users will end up getting it through their affiliation with
> some other group that can easily be marketed to.  College alumni
> email accounts are one obvious source.  Unions and professional
> societies are another.  Hell, *whole companies* could get out of the
> email business by outsourcing to Google (maybe getting some deluxe
> service).
>
> > It sounds like something I might actually be able to use.  I do
> > e-mail on my Sun/Solaris computer, but I can forward everything to
> > g-mail then read my messages more easily from anywhere.  Having
> > lots of storage space and good searching capability makes it
> > potentially worthwhile.
>
> You're thinking too small. "Potentially worthwhile?" I'm sorry, but
> this is the bomb.  Feel free to call me an idiot if we all end up
> being hoaxed, but this really is a plan for world domination.
> Today your email, tomorrow your domain name, the day after, your
> website (if your email is up to a gig, your shiny new personal
> website is just lost in the noise, and the more websites they host,
> the fewer they have to crawl.)
>
> In potentially related news, I noticed that their list of supported
> browsers are Explorer 5.5+ and a bunch of different ways to spell
> "Mozilla".  To say that Microsoft is going to HATE this move is an
> understatement.  It might actually be the turning point for them.
> And I think we can safely assume then that the Mozilla Foundation
> will find themselves with a pretty decent cash position soon.
>
> And I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords.
>
> jking
>
>
>
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