SpyMac beats Google to 1GB

[Mock]

A company called spymac is the supposedly the first to offer 1GB email :

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=55842

I signed up, but never received a message to activate my account.


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SpyMac beats Google to 1GB email
[PC Pro] 10:35

The SpyMac email service is making 1GB of email storage available to all account holders from 5 April.
The announcement comes just days after Google heralded its 1GB Gmail service, but that has yet to get off the ground.

SpyMac is open to users on any platform and offers both webmail and POP3 access, with IMAP under development.

'Spymac agrees with the staff at Google that a 1 GB email account makes sense,' it said in a statement. Nonetheless, it could not risk a dig at the privacy suspicions surrounding GMail: 'Spymac Mail does not include keyword scanning for search and has no advertising.'

 

[Xionide]

Is this a scam or something.

-Xionide

 

[ronton888]

Strange, and I thought 1GB email was an April Fool's joke. Email server's system clock off by a few days? The website looks decent enough but people have been reporting problems getting Spymac's confirmation email regarding their account. I don't know if it's a problem localized with Hotmail/Yahoo or just a bait and switch of some kind....

 

[Zhou]

http://news.com.com/2100-1038-5185461.html

Cnet story on SpyMac 1 GB free email.

 

[iwearnosox]

spymac. rrrriiiggghhhttt..

I'll wait for Google, thanks.

 

[urs74]

yeah I'll wait too can't go wrong with google!

 

[huesmann]

Originally posted by: Sifl
spymac. rrrriiiggghhhttt..

I'll wait for Google, thanks.

Yeah.

Spy. Mac.

Who wants their e-mail provider's name to be made up of two bad words?

 

[dc]

haha

 

[Nick5324]

Originally posted by: huesmann

Originally posted by: Sifl


I'll wait for Google, thanks.

Yeah.

Spy. Mac.

Who wants their e-mail provider's name to be made up of two bad words?

HA, nice. :beer:

 

[TMPadmin]

Who has 1GB of e-mail? Will they allow file storage too? Google I mean.

 

[nebula]

Am I missing something, why do you care if you get 1GB of email? I guess if you use web based email only, is that it? Of course that bites, just use Outlook and you need zero storage then. I don't like the idea of relying on someone else to not lose my emails, besides Outlook flows better.

 

[dongrussell]

Great for off-site backup of important stuff (e-mail it to yourself).

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: dongrussell
Great for off-site backup of important stuff (e-mail it to yourself).

Erm. Not really, depending on the provider. And if you read Google's privacy policy (which the UK is about to ban) it scans the info in your email so it can display relevant ads.

-Por

 

[xenocyd3]

gmail is gangsta mail

 

[bradolson]

I think the 1GB is more of a marketing thing. The vast majority of the users will not use 5% of the 1GB capacity.

 

[terminalmind]

Wow, we already have gmail fanboys and it hasn't even gone public yet.

I signed up for this last night and it took a while to get the e-mail confirmation.
All you have to do to create an account is choose a user name, password and provide an e-mail address.
I used a hotmail address. All the other info they asked for was optional.
Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

 

[VaG]

crazygerman beats mock to posting this on Anandtech.

 

[Yobbo]

Originally posted by: terminalmind
Wow, we already have gmail fanboys and it hasn't even gone public yet.

I signed up for this last night and it took a while to get the e-mail confirmation.
All you have to do to create an account is choose a user name, password and provide an e-mail address.
I used a hotmail address. All the other info they asked for was optional.
Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

Isn't it ironic that you need an email address so that you can get a confirmation for signing up for an email address? Isn't that sorta cyclic...?

Also: 1GB is great: If their servers are fast enough, you can use it to store some data (like someone else mentioned)

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

1GB means all those housewives and grandmothers who are baffled when they don't receive the three pictures their sister sent them won't have to call their husbands or sons to walk them through saving their pictures to a folder then deleting their messages. Sounds like a GREAT idea to me.

 

[jck8r]

macs are g@y, who would "spy " on them :/

 

[MikePanic]

someone on another forum posted a screen shot because they got one of the first test accounts from gmail... the interface is VERY clean and simple and could put an end to hotmail

i had hotmail back round 95-96... it worked for the tme... but i know they change their interface every 6 months or so and my friends who do use it can't stand it everytime they do

the only catch w/ gmail would be the inclusuion of text related ads, but that shouldnt be too too bad... as long as they arnt super obtrusive, like how yahoo puts "yahoo mail bla bla bla " at the bottom of all their emails.

i think google could take a LOT of traffic away from yahoo and hotmail... and rumors of an IPO later this summer or early fall are already starting to go around

 

[dkquan]

When is google suppose to launch it? Is this for real or is it a hoax? And is this for free

 

[snowpeas]

The story about google offering 1gb mail accounts is real enuff. The thing is would you want google to go thru your email and scan thru ur email? And depending on what the system detect the email is about, they'll have ads pertaining to the subject in ur email.. Say you write to ur girlfriend about buying a ring for her, there will be an ad about rings or jewlry.

 

[DongTran]

Originally posted by: nebula
Am I missing something, why do you care if you get 1GB of email? I guess if you use web based email only, is that it? Of course that bites, just use Outlook and you need zero storage then. I don't like the idea of relying on someone else to not lose my emails, besides Outlook flows better.

yeah you're missing one big thing, Outlook costs money. also, what good is a hotmail acct with Outlook if you're trying to receive attachments > 2mb?

 

[nebula]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
1GB means all those housewives and grandmothers who are baffled when they don't receive the three pictures their sister sent them won't have to call their husbands or sons to walk them through saving their pictures to a folder then deleting their messages. Sounds like a GREAT idea to me.

Again I'll say, use Outlook and this will never be an issue. Can you tell that I'm not a fan of webmail?