stop wasting my time with gmail

I completly fail to see what the fuss is about 1 gigabyte of probably overcommitted disk space accessible only via propriatary software and over no reasonable protocol. Especially amoung people who should realize just how few pennies a gigabyte of disk for your very own costs these days.

A market is a wonderful thing, and I am pleased to see that Ebay has determined the fair market value of a gmail invite to be less than 1 dollar; pretty close to the price for a similar capacity hunk of spinning metal.

By posting invites to a mailing list with a few thousand subscribers, a kind hearted gmail user probably manages to waste dozens of man hours to distribute a commodity that's worth far less than that time. There are more efficient ways to do it. Use a website to distribute them, come up with some peer-to-peer gmail invite distribution thing, or sell them on ebay. My time stops being wasted now.

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Am I really the only one to whom a gigabyte of mail storage seems .. small? I delete 90% of my mail and my archives still top 10 gb, and use over 100 gb total in their various mirrorings and backups. Waiting for terramail, over and out.