[74050] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 30 Gmail Invites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Mon Sep 13 07:04:07 2004
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:02:04 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF0874FEED.C5FD9C2C-ON80256F0E.0036D0B7-80256F0E.00374B20@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
>Does anyone really believe that people will use
>gmail as their one and only email account? Perhaps they
>are really using it for trading DIVX encoded movies.
>After all, the cost of sending a DIVX encoded movie from
>one gmail.com mailbox to another gmail.com mailbox is
>relatively low. What happens to your network when
>this happens and instead of receiving a stream of HTML
>search pages from Google, you now start receiving
>huge DIVX film downloads, all from a single site!
>
>
>
I thought there was a message size limit which is far below the mailbox
size limit? Haven't tried if they are able to piece up large messages
from MIME headers or such.
Pete
