E-mail As the New Database 389
jira writes "BBC has an article confirming the trend of using inbox as a sort of personal database. At my workplace I can personally attest to the growing sizes of those pst files and an unwillingness to erase any emails because of 'loss of information'." From the article: "The trend has become more pronounced as the services have dramatically increased their storage capacity in response to upstart Gmail offering a free service with 1,000 megabytes (Mb) of storage." Update: 04/22 23:03 GMT by Z : To reflect that the story is at respected news organization BBC, not a BBS.
2120 MB (Score:5, Funny)
1G of space? (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe it's submissions get rejected immediately but take weeks to be accepted? This one clearly sat in the queue for 3 weeks.
1,000 MB? (Score:2, Funny)
And, yes, e-mail as a pseudo-database is wonderful -- well, with the conveniences gmail offers, at least. But with
Actually... (Score:3, Funny)
I don't know about you, but my Gmail has 2121.046851 megabytes of storage space. I mean 2121.047702 megabytes. I mean 121.048913 megabytes. I mean...
My personal database.. (Score:2, Funny)
Doesn't anyone else just think that email totally sucks? I can't remember the last time I checked my email other than to hit 'confirm' when I signed up for some stupid web service like nytimes.com.
Every time I try to save an email, it ends up getting deleted anyway when I'm throwing out the spam 100's of emails at a time. Email is useless as it is and nothing important should ever be done with an email.
Re:Guilty (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Worst. Submission. Ever. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:2120 MB (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why not? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:ok then (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Guilty (Score:1, Funny)
I'll throw in the insights for free.
Re:Getting Things Done (Score:2, Funny)
Wow! And it comes with free redundant sentence structure! I'm THERE!
(I kid, I kid!)
Re:Guilty (Score:4, Funny)
Re:2120 MB (Score:4, Funny)
- Joining high volume Yahoo! Groups and Google Groups, and getting them to forward every message to me. There are a bunch of really weird groups in other countries that send p0rn around to each other.
- Every single kernel, debian, fc, slackerware, apache, mysql, etc. mailing list we could find... and WHOA we got a lot of mail from that
- P0rn sites ("Enter your email address for free p0rn in your email" really gets you on a lot of spam lists)
- Google "email mailing lists"
In a week, I had 29,000 emails in my inbox taking up 2.1 GB. I'm suprised Google hasn't terminated my account since I'm over my quota and get about 5000+ emails a day now.