Re: [Nolug] Gmail accounts

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 13:15 -0500, Chris Reames wrote:
>> Whats the deal with Gmail invites and why does everybody want them???
>
> Because it's useful to have a GB of external filesystem space!
> http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-
> filesystem.html

What do you see about that that is useful? Me, I see a gee-whiz
factor, not actual usefulness.

Price-per-GB is approaching $0.50. Why would you need GmailFS -- so
Google can have your data?

If the ability to access the same information from multiple places is
an issue, then you can get a usb flash drive with 0.5GB for under
$100, or a 2GB USB pocket hard-drive for $250 -- and they'll work
with a lot more systems than this GmailFS hack.

Mark.

-- 
A choice between one man and a shovel, or a dozen men with teaspoons
is clear to me, and I'm sure it is clear to you also.
    -- Zimran Ahmed <http://www.winterspeak.com/>

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