re the 4 million years estimate, Greg doesn't give the spamsters enough
credit (or blame!). They will take it as a personal challenge to
a) defeat whatever anti-Spam tricks Google comes up with
and
b) fill up the 100 gigs in about three days.
-Graham
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Wilkinson [mailto:gregwilkinson@adelphia.net]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 9:28 AM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: The Healey List, Google and searches
With an average of 1200 email per month @ 2k per email from the list, it
would be 4 million years before your oldest email would be erased.
That's just not good enough for me.
>
> From: Blue One Hundred <international_investor@yahoo.com>
> Date: 2004/04/02 Fri AM 01:42:46 EST
> To: healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: The Healey List, Google and searches
>
> Hi All -
>
> I'm sure many of you are aware that Google is going to
> launch a new free web email program sometime in the
> next couple of weeks.
>
> From what I've read, I would suggest everyone on this
> list consider using it, here's why:
>
> 1) You will get 100 gig of storage. This means you
> can keep over 500,000 emails. Google's philosophy
> here is you would never erase any emails (perfect for
> the list!), just let the emails run until the oldest
> ones are erased automatically by the system.
>
> 2) You will have the use of Google's advanced search technology to
> search your old emails for information. I can bet this will be better
> than doing searches on the Team server!
>
> 3) No junk email and no virus problems!
>
> 4) Knowing google the interface will probably be
> primarily text based, which means browser loading will
> be very fast.
>
> Just a few thoughts,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> '53 BN1 '64 BJ8
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