Re: [Nolug] Gmail accounts

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 18:20 -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> 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.

Hey, we're geeks. I see nothing useful in an iPod (especially at
those prices!), but just about other Geek has one, because the idea
of carrying around 20,000 songs is gee-whiz cool.

So... I think the possibility of storing data in Gmail is cool.

> 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.

But when Debian (the Universal OS) reaches it's goal of World
Domination, it won't matter, will it? :)

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