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Some buzz around 30gigs.com, an invitation-only (for now) Webmail service
offering 30 gigs of storage; obviously a response to Google’s shake-up of e-mail storage expectations. The site is
unavailable on my machine right now, perhaps due to the
Slashdot effect. But the idea that
fixed capacity, even big capacity, can beat Google is faulty. The beauty of Gmail’s continually escalating storage is
the feeling of unlimitlesness that it gives. I occasionally check my counter, and notice that the receding walls keep
my account about 10 percent filled. The assumption this cultivates is that Gmail will never run out of room during
normal e-mail use; Google will keep pace with my needs. A big fixed repository sound more like a storage and
file-sharing solution than an e-mail solution, though the boundaries are getting pretty smeared.
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