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Re: Google to offer gigabyte of free e-mail

Jeff Martin wrote:
| [citation of PR announcement by Google that they'll be offering
| "free" e-mail with 1 GB of storage for saved e-mail]
|
| This may finally be an answer to the problem of searching the java-dev
| archive!

I doubt that. It might be the answer for *one person*, but it won't solve the general problem unless Google allows *me* to search through *your* e-mail, and somehow I don't think you'd like that. Also, I can't imagine them being interested in hosting umpteen identical copies of a mailing list archive, which produces vastly more verbiage than a regular personal e-mail account.

Aside from that, the full list archives would require far more than 1 GB of space. I keep a transient archive of the last three weeks or so, and it's currently using about 40 MB. Assuming that's average, you'd fill your gigabyte after about a year and a half of postings.


| It would be sweet to be able to google the java-dev archives.

As has been said recently, on this very list, Apple is seriously considering making *the* archives searchable by Google, once they figure out how to allow that and still protect the e-mail addresses from spam harvesters.

Glen Fisher
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 >Google to offer gigabyte of free e-mail (From: Jeff Martin <email@hidden>)



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