1 Terabyte of Mail

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dc

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hm, i would send ~half my combined hd space, but it would takeforever to upload. heh.
 

zimu

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i woudl totally sign up but its probably a waste. i've already got my aventuremail account and backed up all my pictures on that. 1TB is awesome, but chances are there'll be a time i won't log in for the 90 days they say and lose my account, which is no good!
 

zimu

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i just realized that we could use this service as a way to distribute large files between us.

i mean for e.g. we have weekly top gear uploads. now, instead of using up super-large amounts of bandwidth on someone's server, have one person email it to this youvegotpost account, and they can forward it to anyone who asks for it. i don't think too many people have incoming file size limits, or do they?
 

DurocShark

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Originally posted by: zimu
i just realized that we could use this service as a way to distribute large files between us.

i mean for e.g. we have weekly top gear uploads. now, instead of using up super-large amounts of bandwidth on someone's server, have one person email it to this youvegotpost account, and they can forward it to anyone who asks for it. i don't think too many people have incoming file size limits, or do they?

I'm thinking I need to sign up... ;)

Who needs Bittorrent when you've got terabyte email?!?!?
 

zimu

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Originally posted by: DurocShark
Originally posted by: zimu
i just realized that we could use this service as a way to distribute large files between us.

i mean for e.g. we have weekly top gear uploads. now, instead of using up super-large amounts of bandwidth on someone's server, have one person email it to this youvegotpost account, and they can forward it to anyone who asks for it. i don't think too many people have incoming file size limits, or do they?

I'm thinking I need to sign up... ;)

Who needs Bittorrent when you've got terabyte email?!?!?

exactly my thought. i mean think about it, for each additional person you want a send a, say, 700MB file to, you use maybe 100Kb logging onto the system and forwarding the email as an attachment to whoever requested for it. no need to re-upload 700 megs or depend on other people seeding a file etc.

only pain there is the manual labor of logging on and forwarding, instead of simply leaving your bittorrent as a seed while you're out to lunch.
 
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well i've sent 2 people a 32MB file so far and neither of them is chiming in saying they got it, so we may have killed this already.
 

NightCrawler

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I got it but MyIE2 wouldn't download it right cause of the script they use, so I tried FireFox and it worked. Downloaded at about 1 megabit.
 

Jeff7181

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I bet if people started swapping hundreds of megabytes of data it would bring their servers to a slow crawl.

At first I thought, well they could just "scan" attatchments to make sure people aren't using it to send pirated software, music, video, etc. But then I thought... what if they used Winzip 9 to compress and encrypt the file using 256-bit encryption and give it a name that has nothing to do with the contents? They wouldn't be able to guard against that I don't think... or could they?
 
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Originally posted by: NightCrawler
I got it but MyIE2 wouldn't download it right cause of the script they use, so I tried FireFox and it worked. Downloaded at about 1 megabit.
Well what did you think of t?
 

NightCrawler

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Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Originally posted by: NightCrawler
I got it but MyIE2 wouldn't download it right cause of the script they use, so I tried FireFox and it worked. Downloaded at about 1 megabit.
Well what did you think of t?


I liked the t's very much :)
 

zimu

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messages really take forever to get through! i sent emails to myself last night and didn't get them for 2 hours! and this is no attachment <1KB emails!

with delays like those in an emailing system, i know it won't be satisfactory... i want my emails instantly, dammit!
 

zimu

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Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
ok someone with a youvegotpost email post it here so I can send something to you and see if it will really accept huge attachments.

edit, 1st to respond receives "JordanCapriLapdances.wmv" it's 32MB

hey i want the video too please! should be easy to just forward it, as discussed earlier in this thread!

zimu@youvegotpost.com

thx!