Email provider with decent file sizes ?
May 24th 2004, 2:25 pm
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Email provider with decent file sizes ?
I am looking for an email account that I can use to receive files larger than 2MB. Any recommendations ?
May 24th 2004, 2:28 pm
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Re: Email provider with decent file sizes ?
Originally posted by BenandPam
I am looking for an email account that I can use to receive files larger than 2MB. Any recommendations ?
I am looking for an email account that I can use to receive files larger than 2MB. Any recommendations ?
May 24th 2004, 6:05 pm
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or subscribe to this website and have an email address like @britishexpats.com with 25mb of space.
May 24th 2004, 11:52 pm
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Try google for a 1GB space, heard about that a while ago !
May 25th 2004, 10:39 pm
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Originally posted by mickj
Try google for a 1GB space, heard about that a while ago !
Try google for a 1GB space, heard about that a while ago !
May 25th 2004, 11:55 pm
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Can't go wrong with FastMail.
Their free 'guest' account gives you:
10 MB storage space
40 MB bw/month
IMAP/Web access
45 day no activity period
www.fastmail.fm
Their free 'guest' account gives you:
10 MB storage space
40 MB bw/month
IMAP/Web access
45 day no activity period
www.fastmail.fm
May 29th 2004, 1:34 pm
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Originally posted by mickj
Try google for a 1GB space, heard about that a while ago !
Try google for a 1GB space, heard about that a while ago !
https://gmail.google.com/
James
May 30th 2004, 3:22 pm
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It sounded good to me but somehow the thought of my e-mails knowingly being searched even if it is automated gives me the creeps ................ and not just me by the look of this report from The Mecury News
"You know all those privacy red flags that went up when Google announced its upcoming free email service? Well, the California Senate got in the act today by approving a bill that would limit the use of information the service would compile.
``Gmail'' will give users a gigabyte of storage but attaches ads for products related to what's being discussed in the e-mail.
Technology that allows e-mail content to be scanned could allow companies to ``use our e-mails to create profiles on us, based on our most personal and intimate thoughts,'' said the bill's author, Sen. Liz Figueroa, D-Sunol.
Google had opposed an early version of the bill that banned the practice of scanning e-mails without consent from both the sender and recipient. But recent amendments have shifted Google to a neutral position, company spokesman David Krane said.
Company officials will keep working with Figueroa, Krane said, ``to craft a bill that both enhances user privacy protections in the law while allowing for always improving and changing Internet services that benefit consumers.''
The The bill allows the e-mails to be scanned for marketing purposes, but prohibits companies from compiling the information into a database. It also bans companies from selling or sharing the information it gleans to third parties. "
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...8776318.htm?1c
"You know all those privacy red flags that went up when Google announced its upcoming free email service? Well, the California Senate got in the act today by approving a bill that would limit the use of information the service would compile.
``Gmail'' will give users a gigabyte of storage but attaches ads for products related to what's being discussed in the e-mail.
Technology that allows e-mail content to be scanned could allow companies to ``use our e-mails to create profiles on us, based on our most personal and intimate thoughts,'' said the bill's author, Sen. Liz Figueroa, D-Sunol.
Google had opposed an early version of the bill that banned the practice of scanning e-mails without consent from both the sender and recipient. But recent amendments have shifted Google to a neutral position, company spokesman David Krane said.
Company officials will keep working with Figueroa, Krane said, ``to craft a bill that both enhances user privacy protections in the law while allowing for always improving and changing Internet services that benefit consumers.''
The The bill allows the e-mails to be scanned for marketing purposes, but prohibits companies from compiling the information into a database. It also bans companies from selling or sharing the information it gleans to third parties. "
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...8776318.htm?1c
May 30th 2004, 7:30 pm
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1GB is a whole lot of space for emails, most people are going to be using this for sending files and other large stuff over the net, and its only a matter of time before the copyright police and others like the RIAA, lobby for it to be shutdown.
If you think your mails are not being scanned now, think again, but like you said, the thoughts of it being searched, gives me the creeps too.
I will say if you get an important email, download and encrypt it using a 128 AES program, there is a whole bunch of them out there.
If you think your mails are not being scanned now, think again, but like you said, the thoughts of it being searched, gives me the creeps too.
I will say if you get an important email, download and encrypt it using a 128 AES program, there is a whole bunch of them out there.
Originally posted by widge
It sounded good to me but somehow the thought of my e-mails knowingly being searched even if it is automated gives me the creeps ................ and not just me by the look of this report from The Mecury News
"You know all those privacy red flags that went up when Google announced its upcoming free email service? Well, the California Senate got in the act today by approving a bill that would limit the use of information the service would compile.
``Gmail'' will give users a gigabyte of storage but attaches ads for products related to what's being discussed in the e-mail.
Technology that allows e-mail content to be scanned could allow companies to ``use our e-mails to create profiles on us, based on our most personal and intimate thoughts,'' said the bill's author, Sen. Liz Figueroa, D-Sunol.
Google had opposed an early version of the bill that banned the practice of scanning e-mails without consent from both the sender and recipient. But recent amendments have shifted Google to a neutral position, company spokesman David Krane said.
Company officials will keep working with Figueroa, Krane said, ``to craft a bill that both enhances user privacy protections in the law while allowing for always improving and changing Internet services that benefit consumers.''
The The bill allows the e-mails to be scanned for marketing purposes, but prohibits companies from compiling the information into a database. It also bans companies from selling or sharing the information it gleans to third parties. "
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...8776318.htm?1c
It sounded good to me but somehow the thought of my e-mails knowingly being searched even if it is automated gives me the creeps ................ and not just me by the look of this report from The Mecury News
"You know all those privacy red flags that went up when Google announced its upcoming free email service? Well, the California Senate got in the act today by approving a bill that would limit the use of information the service would compile.
``Gmail'' will give users a gigabyte of storage but attaches ads for products related to what's being discussed in the e-mail.
Technology that allows e-mail content to be scanned could allow companies to ``use our e-mails to create profiles on us, based on our most personal and intimate thoughts,'' said the bill's author, Sen. Liz Figueroa, D-Sunol.
Google had opposed an early version of the bill that banned the practice of scanning e-mails without consent from both the sender and recipient. But recent amendments have shifted Google to a neutral position, company spokesman David Krane said.
Company officials will keep working with Figueroa, Krane said, ``to craft a bill that both enhances user privacy protections in the law while allowing for always improving and changing Internet services that benefit consumers.''
The The bill allows the e-mails to be scanned for marketing purposes, but prohibits companies from compiling the information into a database. It also bans companies from selling or sharing the information it gleans to third parties. "
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...8776318.htm?1c
