Gmail idea

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 12/25/06, deeptech71 at gmail.com <deeptech71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim Capozzoli wrote:
> > I know this isn't related to FreeBSD at all, but I wanted to see what
> > other people thought about this.  What if google set up a mechanism
> > where emails are shared between user accounts?  Like, suppose this
> > email is submitted to chat at freebsd.org, right, and the gmail mail
> > server sees who is all getting mail from chat at freebsd.org.  Then, it
> > has only one copy of the message on the server, and points everybody's
> > account who is supposed to have this message to that one copy on the
> > server.  Despite it seems like they have unlimited space this could
> > probably seem useful to them anyway. :-P
> >
> > Is this a good idea or am I just insane?  Btw I can't find the spot in
> > google's support area to submit my idea so that's half the reason I
> > sent it here incase anybody who works at google also happens to be
> > subscribed to chat at . xD
> >
>
> It's a modern network with everything in it. That should already be
> implemented somehow. If not directly, then file compression should do
> the job.

Yes, I'm somehow sure they are already doing it.

> If google thinks he's the center of the world, OK, let us all register
> for 2GB and fill it with bulk. Man at this rate I wont buy new HDDs,
> I'll install my OS onto google and run it from there lol :]

They block user accounts for that. You can only use
gmail for average email-related workflows, which
imply 90% of easily-compressible data. They have
plenty of space to store that.

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/06/four-petabytes-in-memory.html