Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:02:07 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "deeptech71@gmail.com" <deeptech71@gmail.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org, Jim Capozzoli <saltmiser@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Gmail idea Message-ID: <cb5206420612250202p43ef84c9l8336519c4d06906c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <458F4D75.8020703@gmail.com> References: <37f72b1f0612241923h5c92e50kdff07783434efbbd@mail.gmail.com> <458F4D75.8020703@gmail.com>
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On 12/25/06, deeptech71@gmail.com <deeptech71@gmail.com> wrote: > Jim Capozzoli wrote: > > I know this isn't related to FreeBSD at all, but I wanted to see what > > other people thought about this. What if google set up a mechanism > > where emails are shared between user accounts? Like, suppose this > > email is submitted to chat@freebsd.org, right, and the gmail mail > > server sees who is all getting mail from chat@freebsd.org. Then, it > > has only one copy of the message on the server, and points everybody's > > account who is supposed to have this message to that one copy on the > > server. Despite it seems like they have unlimited space this could > > probably seem useful to them anyway. :-P > > > > Is this a good idea or am I just insane? Btw I can't find the spot in > > google's support area to submit my idea so that's half the reason I > > sent it here incase anybody who works at google also happens to be > > subscribed to chat@. xD > > > > It's a modern network with everything in it. That should already be > implemented somehow. If not directly, then file compression should do > the job. Yes, I'm somehow sure they are already doing it. > If google thinks he's the center of the world, OK, let us all register > for 2GB and fill it with bulk. Man at this rate I wont buy new HDDs, > I'll install my OS onto google and run it from there lol :] They block user accounts for that. You can only use gmail for average email-related workflows, which imply 90% of easily-compressible data. They have plenty of space to store that. http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/06/four-petabytes-in-memory.html
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