Humeganormous Email Accounts

Owen Winkler writes about AOL's new 2 GB email accounts. These were first deployed back when I worked for them for a term, and Owen's post reminded me of a question I'd asked back then: Does it matter?. To me, not really. I don't keep my email on the web anyway. If I did, it might be a bit heavy on the storage side, but there's no way that my email dating back to 1998 would take up 2 and a half gigs.

Never mind that Gmail's interface wins, hands down, I already have an account there. Sure, I've got an aim account, but there's little point in me using that: I've long since abandoned it because of the stupid bots that AOL adds to your contact list. I gave up on yahoo messenger when I got a flood of little kiddies asking to chat on it. Stupid random chat feature.... so Trillian is looking rather empty, having only two IM networks to connect to.

Update:

Now that I'm not so falling-o'er tired, I can make one of the points that I wanted to make: a 2 gigabyte email account would be a lot more useful if I could upload my existing mail to it. But since no free provider permits IMAP access, we're out of luck. Not that I would put all of my personal mail on gmail anyways: I know of some people who use it for their work email accounts.