Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit

An anonymous reader writes "Google claims that people are devouring capacity with photos and other attachments on its Gmail e-mail service faster than the company can add to it at its current pace. So Google said on Friday that it would increase the rate at which it is adding capacity to its web-based service. There's only one problem, Google's main competitors — Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo Mail — far surpassed Gmail this year with their own capacity."

Passed up, nothing

[stonecypher]

Yahoo! Mail went to unlimited like six months ago. Anyone still watching their mail space should focus their time fending off mastodon with their obsidian knives.

Re:hands up

[Enderandrew]

I haven't filled my inbox, but I use GMail to the Maxx!!!

it's true!

[ClippySay]

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Re:it's true!

[Anonymous Coward]

< Did you mean 'people are'? >
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Re:hands up

[ukatoton]

NOOOOOO! Leave my 3069 MB alone!

Re:hands up

[Anonymous Coward]

call me crazy, but i've kept all my email from all the way back -- that'd be 1993. i keep it all organized in an imap folder ... and it is about 32GB now. so, once they increase their measly 5GB seven-fold, i may consider using them.

Re:hands up

[wile_e_wonka]

Just over three years now (oldest email in the inbox is from August 2004), I'm at 430 MB. I never actively delete emails except spam, but I did accidentally remove several months worth of emails when I accidentally had the wrong IMAP settings.

I'm guessing they'd have to be under a LOT of pressure to make storage "unlimited" because of all the people that would very quickly devour that using gmail-drive programs. Personally, I think I would just install Ubuntu on gmail-drive and never worry about space again ;)

Re:just one new feature

[Duncan3]

It takes at least 5,001 engineers to figure out how to delete attachments, and Google only has 5,000. So it's really just beyond them to figure it out. It's not like the code to do that is just laying around in a dozen open source packages or anything.

I've known dozens of people what "worked" at Google, and they all say it's just one big party. The only people that work are the low-paid ad sales crew - the ones responsible for 99.9% of last quarter's revenue.

If it doesn't sell ads, noone works on it.

Re:DVD service next?

[th1nk]

Or maybe they'll send you hard-copies for free:

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html [google.com]

Re:hands up

[SkyDude]

hands up who here uses gmail to the max?
myself after 2 years im only using ~500MB

Well, maybe it's because you don't have friends or relatives that send you stupid videos and pictures.

I regret the day I trained my mother-in-law how to attach things to emails. I may have to show her how to find things on Youtube or how to upload and link to them on Youtube.

Or maybe just break her PC and tell her it can't be fixed........

Re:hands up

[Simon (S2)]

That's because I am so cool and you are a looser

Re:hands up

[MadnessASAP]

3075 MB Bitches!!

Re:hands up

[budgenator]

yeah right let's be honest, its a porn not a uni mailing list, don't get me wrong there's nothing wrong with a little porn in your gmail account, I've got more than a little myself, but hiding, hording, and lying are signs of addiction. If you can't bring yourself to delete it, get professional help

But wait, there's more!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

In fact, I received my set of obsidian knives *with* my Hotmail Upgrade.
Act now, operators are standing by.

Re:hands up

[Anonymous Coward]

I have 22,000 emails in my inbox and still using 7%.

I think some people are using Gmail like a truck. That's the problem.

Re:hands up

[dgatwood]

Someone who looses. I'm not sure what they loose, though. Probably spam.

Hey! Stop loosing your spam in my direction, you jerks!

Re:hands up

[Anonymous Coward]

It's ok. He's only using it for swap!