[74053] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 30 Gmail Invites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Mon Sep 13 07:23:27 2004
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 07:17:50 -0400
From: Curtis Maurand <curtis@maurand.com>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <41457E2C.7030902@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hell, I couldn't even log into it. The system was "Temporarily
unavailable" when I tried.
Curtis
Petri Helenius wrote:
>
> 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
>
