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Thunndarr
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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Ugh....when will this end? A Terabyte. Until they support more than 10MB attatchments, I think it's overkill.
Now, a terabyte with a massive file transfer limit; now that's appealing.
How many 15kb messages do I need to hold on to? A Terabyte wouldn't be full until my kids pass away... |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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Perhaps you missed this part...
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| 60 percent of our users use more than five GByte of their available space and 25 percent regularly send 500 MByte attachments all day long," he said. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep...missed it. That's cool then.... |
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Sage Monkey
Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Who really needs to send 500MB attachments?
Sounds like people swapping movie files, programs, complete music albums etc., so the real question is-
how fast does an attachment download to your pc from the mail server?
Is it faster than grabbing a file off of PtoP?
I suspect not. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:47 am Post subject: |
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| There are quite a few things it would be incredibly useful for that do not involve file swapping. Bandwidth is, of course, a large issue. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| There are quite a few things it would be incredibly useful for that do not involve file swapping. Bandwidth is, of course, a large issue. |
Such as?
Not doubting you, I'm just having trouble thinking of anything that would spring to mind for the average user.
I don't know what the limit is on my work system, but I do know it's nation-wide and I have received emails with multiple large attachments- I think the largest was 2 power point presentations totalling 120 MB (and I was already thinking to myself- what kind of idiot makes a 70MB presentation? I needed a hard copy and totally jammed up the print server...).
Anyway, that's work. For a home account, I really don't see how I could use a 500MB attachment- a hi-res photo album to all my friends? My favorite songs to all my friends at 196kbps? My favorite books scanned into PDF files? It just seems to me that for these examples an email attachment isn't the most effective method.
I suppose the company is thinking ahead and laying the groundwork for the future... but 500MB attachment capability offers no appeal to me at the present time. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| Think more in terms of storage rather than communication. |
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blah
Joined: 08 May 2003
Location: Ulsan, Korea
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| Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 8:43 am Post subject: |
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| How about mpegs from your digital camera showing all the good times you��re having in Korea? It would be nice for novices like myself who don��t know much about converting files and compressing them. Just make a home movie and send it to family or friends in its original format. It��s late, am I making sense? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| Thunndarr wrote: |
| Think more in terms of storage rather than communication. |
I'm not sure I'm following- 500MB free is nice, but if I need portable storage I've got no problem paying $30 for a 512MB USB 2 flash drive.
EDIT: Ok, I think I see what you're driving at: 1TB of potential storage. Yes that's impressive. But of course it would all have to be in 500MB chunks? And 'uploaded' as email attachments? It still doesn't do anything for me. |
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mishlert
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:04 am Post subject: |
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Just got my account and will use it mostly for storage.
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| 107374182.4 Mb Limit |
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