2006-04-27
gmail has made me lazy
and I'm going to have to pay the piper eventually.
I just noticed I am sitting at 32% capacity, up from about 6% that I was at 6 months ago. With all this limitless space and measly ability to only delete 50 things at a time I can see a point in the near future when I will be totally screwed.
why? well.. I have about 6000 'conversations' sitting in email.. some are important, some aren't I just use 'search' to find the old stuff.. it's great. I hardly delete anything and I have a couple of mailing lists going into it which I skim through.
but what happens when my gmail gets full (probably at the end of the year) am I going to have to go on a massive diet, or will I switch my alias to another gmail account and start filling it up? . and then switch everything over to that.. talk about a PITA.
By making it so hard to delete email and discouraging people to delete them google has is going to have a whole heap of unhappy 'fat' inboxes in 1Q 2007.. unless it keeps on giving away more disk space.
Have you thought about what you will do when you reach 99% capacity?
when I have a spare day I'm going to just suck it into mail.app and wipe it.. diets are good!