On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 01:38:38 -0400, Steve <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
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> On Friday 11 June 2004 09:05 pm, Levi Bard wrote:
> > >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)?
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> > Because there's not a freely available supply, demand skyrocketed (you
> > all saw it!).
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> But it's only so for a short while. I mean it's a created scarcity to make
> them seem more valuable. Gain a lot of attention and then become avalailable
> to anyone and his dog.
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> Guess it's like collecting those cards. Buy a gum and you get this baseball
> player or something. Stupid piece of paper worth lots of money because it's
> scarce. Quite fascinating what an idea can do...
>
> > As far as plans, well, I plan to do with it the same thing I plan to do
> > with every email account.....TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
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> I just figured that by now everyone (at least here) would have their own email
> account(s) already.
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> Are you going to keep all your mail there for ever and ever? Is that the idea?
> Store files there so you can reach them wherever you are?
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> Steve
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I belive why this has gotten so much attention is the simplefact it
is from google. no one really seemed to care about spymac.com offering
1gig of email space. yeah I have a spymac account but the service is
so unrealiable it not funny.. But spaymac got /.ed and to them getting
a lot of people to visit there site is important. Which is is rather
a stupid site all together. Well I dont think that people want to
wait.... it still could be months. the way I read information they
want to grow just out of invites at least for the foreseeable future.
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