MS Hot Live mail now offers 5 GB of free mail space. Google GMail offers 2.9 GB of mail space. Yahoo! has no caps and offers an unlimited mail storage.

I don’t want to sound like “640 kB should be enough memory for anyone” or “I believe there is a world market for about five computers” [0], but isn’t two point nine megs gigs [1] (and counting) enough for most of us — for what we currently understand as email? If you want to stash your pr0n, have loads of silly serial attachments, or use your mailbox as storage, go to AWS, or Photobucket, or YouSendIt — or just buy a bigger external HD.

Sure, in a few years from now, we may consider video calls email and will want to archive that, but at that point, this statement isn’t what it’s meant to read now. Your current mail should fit into two point nine gigs. Your pr0n stash should go elsewhere.

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[0] Yes, i know that both of these quotes are miss-attributed and were in fact never uttered by Bill the Gates and Thomas J. Watson, respectively.

[1] Oops. Gigs, not megs. Thanks to Niklas for pointing it out.