this might interest you:
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--- In DreamcastBrowsers@yahoogroups.com, Sam Steele <chip@c...> wrote:
> http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
>
> Last year's pigeonrank page is still up, too. I just don't feel it's
> financially possible for any company to offer a gig of space per user
> for free. Drives cost a lot! Not to mention backups and mirror
> drives..
>
> I guess we'll find out. *shrug*
>
> -Sam
>
> On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 22:00, karl wrote:
> > >I'm pretty sure it's an april fools
> > joke from google.
> >
> > I think it's legit. It's now April 4 and
> > the offer is still up. From the FAQ
> >
> > 10. Why is Google offering email? I
> > thought you were a search company.
> >
> > Google's mission is to organize the
> > world's information and make it
> > universally useful and accessible. For
> > many people, email contains valuable
> > information that can be difficult to
> > retrieve. We believe we can help with
> > that.
> >
> > And they specify 1 gig of storage. It
> > seems messegages never get deleted and
> > will be searchable, hence the need for a
> > lot of space.
> >
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