The toman diaries

gmail = 1 gigabytes of mail

fredag, april 02, 2004

OK, is it an aprils fools joke? Seems not, cause google announced march 31(the most popular story on cnet right now btw) that they would set up a free webmail which offers users a whopping 1 GB of storage. Then they issued a pressrelease the 1.april, and its still there the second (today).

So we checked it out, we in #opera at irc.opera.com, and found that they indeed had mail-servers in place; I tried sending a mail to a nonexistent@gmail.com, and got a "Delivery failure" message, with a message ID of [dont@remember].gmail.com.

But sadly, only a selected number of people, 1000 of them, would be joining betatesting. I guess that means people they imagine are very popular with mail, (so they can really test it) and I'm not :-(