Spake Robert Snyder on Friday, June 11, 2004 at 08:07PM -0400:
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:27:15 -0400, Dylan William Hardison
> <dylanwh@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > Spake Steve on Friday, June 11, 2004 at 06:57PM -0400:
> > > I've not seen so much instant excitement over a free email account for a long
> > > time! Besides from the obvious large storage etc. Why are you so excited and
> > > what are your plans with this account(s)?
> > >
> >
> > Personally, I just like winning prizes. My own self-hosted email
> > has several times more storage than gmail will offer... I also insert my
> > mail into a mysql database and have several custom utilities for
> > searching that... Keeping mail in mysql is really nice
> > when it comes time to find out what someone said $n years ago,
> > or how much traffic I get from SLUG in a week.
> >
> > --
> Or do it my way forget all the my sql junk and let google handle it.
There's no fun in that, though. None at all. I rarely do things for
practicality, always for entertainment value. :)
--
Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
-- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
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