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Title: Gmail... looking forward to it
Post by: Saintaw on May 14, 2004, 08:41:33 AM

This is something to look forward to in a near future:

google is about to launch a 1Gb free webmail.

http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html

https://gmail.google.com/

Title: Gmail... looking forward to it
Post by: Mickey1992 on May 14, 2004, 09:05:10 AM

"Google requires engineers to spend a day a week on projects that interest them, unrelated to their day jobs."

Would "testing the effects of alcohol on the liver" be considered a project that interests me?  I think so.

Title: Gmail... looking forward to it
Post by: DiabloTX on May 14, 2004, 09:21:05 AM

You trying out for the FDB's, Mickey?

Title: Gmail... looking forward to it
Post by: NATEDOG on May 14, 2004, 09:29:04 AM

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Title: Gmail... looking forward to it
Post by: Mickey1992 on May 14, 2004, 09:40:23 AM

NATEDOG.  You weren't Col Natedawg at Bouzonville last night, were you?

Title: Gmail... looking forward to it
Post by: NATEDOG on May 14, 2004, 10:00:48 AM

nope sorry

Title: Gmail... looking forward to it
Post by: Ripsnort on May 14, 2004, 10:16:17 AM

Gmail will place a cookie on your computer (or some sort of resident) for selling off information. Was on the radio yesterday.

Title: Gmail... looking forward to it
Post by: Saintaw on May 14, 2004, 10:45:43 AM

What is does (apparently) is to pass up targeted ads (in text format) at the bottom of the emails.

I won't post the link i found... it's in french.

Nevertheless, 1Gb for free is pretty nice, hopefully it'll push the other large webmail companies (hotmail, imail, yahoo, excite...) to up their limits.

Oh, and Rip... a cookie is just plain text, what it can probably do is store the references to the products you're interested in & set the related adds to those products.