[Gmail-Users] Re: Have you deleted any of your Gmail?

You can count on the fact that Google has thought of that. By using
invitations they controlled the adoption of the service, which allowed
them to make estimates on how much space is used by a single account,
on average. That allowed them to offer 1gb, then 2gb, etc, to every
user, being fairly certain that, oh I don't know, "95% won't use more
than 50-100mb at most".

I doubt they actually have 2.5gb ready for every person to fill up.
I'm not sure what would happen if every single one of us suddenly
decided to start uploading insane amounts of attachments, spiking our
usage from 10% to 80% in a few hours. We can be sure that Google has
taken stuff like that into consideration, one way or another. Adding
storage constantly, or placing constraints on how much you can
actually upload in a day, or whatever.

Fanis

On 12/15/05, Wiseman <Wiseman1024@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Well, they may be temporarily overselling their resources, which means
> they add resources as necessary. I'm pretty sure they'll be more
> profitable one way or another if people don't use all of their GMail
> space without need. Since this is a free service and I'm content with
> it outside the uselessness of attachments, I'd like them to be
> profitable.
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