06-08-2004, 10:25 PM | #16 |
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Suspended AventureMail Account
AventureMail allready suspended my account! Read the story here: http://3fingersalute.net/aventuremail/
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06-09-2004, 02:31 AM | #17 |
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Wow that's interesting. Perhaps they are desperately trying to find a reason to remove some users again, hoping to keep the server from boging down again
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06-10-2004, 03:51 AM | #18 |
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WHY WHY WHY did I only check this forum now!
I just tried to get an account and got: Aventure Mail Error We are currently not accepting new registrations. Accounts can be purchased in our store (http://www.aventuremail.co.uk/store) in the mean time. So only 'paid-for' accounts for the moment (3GB/4GB/5GB for $21.95/$41.95/$65.95 respectively) Last edited by melvynadam; 06-10-2004 at 03:56 AM. |
06-16-2004, 07:38 AM | #19 | |
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This is what AventureMail says about the current shortage of free e-mail registrations:
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06-16-2004, 12:27 PM | #20 |
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Well, I've got my Aventuremail account, but I think I'll stick with Yahoo! for primary -- esp now that I have -2040mb of space.
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06-26-2004, 10:25 AM | #21 |
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Yeah, I am late too..ahhh...It seems that now more and more companies offer more free email space. Just take as example, Yahoo also offer 100 MB of email space now.
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09-10-2004, 02:39 PM | #22 | |
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Seems like AventureMail was pretty much a dud. Slow server. And now they have apparently cut me off unless I pay $2 for anti-abuse cost!
Not really that useful anymore, anyway, because my gmail account (thanks to MobileRead) and yahoo and even hotmail are plenty big for my personal email purposes. Here's the text from the AventureMail login screen... Quote:
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09-10-2004, 03:24 PM | #23 |
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2GB of mail doesn't make a GMail killer. 10GB of mail doesn't make a GMail killer. I'd certainly trust Google with my data long before I'd trust some fly-by-night company I've never heard of. (But, that being said, I don't trust Google with my data at all, even though they have already admitted to tracking searches people do, per-IP, and storing it in their datastores).
I haven't yet seen a GMail killer, and I doubt we'll see one in the next 2-3 years, if even that short. Why? Because GMail doesn't "store" email like these other providers. Your email is a pointer to an enormous datastore on their shard, which can contain messages that other users see also. For example, lets say you have a mailing list with 10,000 subscribers. 5,000 of those subscribers are GMail users, and they all subscribe their GMail addresses to the list. The other 5,000 users are random email addresses across the globe. When a message is sent to the list, and is sent to the GMail subscribers, one copy of the message is put into the GMail datastore, and 5,000 pointers all reference it. If you are one of the 5,000 people in GMail who "get" that message, you see it in your mailbox. If 1,000 of the GMail users delete it, there are now 4,000 pointers to the original message. The same goes for spam on GMail. When you report a message as spam, a heuristic is applied to it that identifies it so that NO OTHER GMail USERS would receive that spam again, based on a weighting by other users who have also ranked that message as spam. So, to store 2GB of mail, isn't really storing that much, you're probably storing 2GB of mail across 100 users who share some percentage of the same sort of messages. Make sense? And the reasons why this won't be seen in other systems, are several:
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09-10-2004, 03:47 PM | #24 | |
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That's is interesting news, thank you for the information, David. I didn't know about the internal cross-referencing algorithm!
I agree, Aventuremail looks like big scam today. Bob you at least received a message that allows you to go on; look at what I got: loginname: my (the email I signed up for was my@aventuremail.com) Quote:
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09-10-2004, 04:15 PM | #25 | |
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09-10-2004, 04:31 PM | #26 |
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Probably Don't know whom they wanted to impress with their pseudo-free-offer.
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09-11-2004, 12:52 AM | #27 |
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Hacker: I'm really interested in your description of the Google system. Where did you find the info? Do you have any recommended references on this where I could learn more?
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09-11-2004, 10:27 AM | #28 | |
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Got this in my email today (emphasis added by me):
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