jdifool's Journal: Mail fortunes

Am I the only one to have a mail box that let me store my 1500 mails for free ?

Or is the Hotmail/Yahoo FUD actually working ?

Or is the average geek not able to find a mailbox provider that give you 100 Mb of space for free ?

For one and every situation mentionned above, and especially for the French community, take a look at Freesurf. It's about 100 Mb, and it's free.

Maybe, though, I'm too stupid to understand the very subtle meaning of having a 2Mb Hotmail box...

Regards,
jdif

Some geeks run their own

[Bronster]

Even though it's costing me approx AU$70/month in hosting fees (plus the server setup costs..) I really like the fact that I have 30 gig or so of RAID5-with-hotswapped disk and 768Mb memory at my disposal, plus about 10 IP addresses and Debian Woody with root.

There are some things that no free provider will give you, like the ability to log in to a web interface and hard-reboot the machine (yay for internal management cards) as a last resort, and the ability to install what I want, when I want.

But yes, I'

Re:Some geeks run their own

[jdifool]

No argument about what you described.

When you have such specific requirements that only a specialized company can provide it, it is quite logical that you have to pay for it.

Acutally I just found in a M2 post the Google-Mail story, with a guy modded up for saying that what Google could offer was more space, in terms of 2-4 more Mbs.

I mean this is just revolting ; even the geek community present on /. has been contamined by the Microsoft FUD that says ; "oh we offer 2Mb for free, it means that you won'

interesting

[efflux]

I don't even get that much space at my university account. I'll definately check them out.

Re:interesting

[jdifool]

Ok my mail is : difool---____NOSPAM_____----fuckyouspammers---goto hell anddon'tyouevercomebackmotherfucker@gobacktyourmot her.---.freesurf.fr

If you send me a message with your password, I'll make it for you.

jdif