Company gives away 100 GByte email

Found on Tom's Hardware Guide on Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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And you thought Google's 1-GByte Gmail was big: Hellacious Riders, an online motorcycle magazine, announced that it launched a 100-GByte Email service to its users. The firm extended its offer with a challenge to THG readers for a 1000 GByte account.

Google claims in its promotion of Gmail that users never will have to delete emails again, due to the pure dimension of its service. Hriders.com, based in Irvine, California, believes that one Gigabyte simply is not enough and offers what Google presented as a bug to some users in the week after Gmail's launch: A whopping 100 GByte.

Up to today, Weiss has signed up 52 million users in countries - a number which he wants to grow significantly to be recognized as record: "We would like to be included in the Guinness Book of Records for the world's largest mailing list," he said.

It's getting ridiculous. I doubt they could provide the space if users really start to fill their accounts. It's more or less just a PR action and when it comes to provide it, they always can drop it. Besides of this, those large mail accounts are getting interesting for filesharing too; upload the files to your account (encrypted) and forward them to whoever needs them.