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  • Offline neXus

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Files on gmail
on: May 04, 2006, 02:59:42 AM
Such as images

You have a load of space and people can send you things and you can let it sit there.

I have gspace for firefox and allows you to connect to your gmail space and add files much like ftp.

So i wondered, how do you link them? Not long after i got an email from myself per say saying i added an image to the space, small thumbnail and a "view" link as well as a download one

view link:http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=att&disp=inline&attid=0.1&th=10af5e43686786b5

That does not seem to work as a link for everyone and i was wondering if any of you knew if you could upload an image and link it so others can see or is it just a pure personal online storage space?

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Re:Files on gmail
Reply #1 on: May 04, 2006, 06:29:18 AM
Its almost certainly going to be purely personal storage for a number of reasons, two of which are:

1) It would be a bad thing[size=9]tm[/size] for the world to be able to see into your mailbox (They could solve that by having some folders hosted and some not I guess, but then the gstorage stuff is unsupported by Google as far as I know, and not really what the service is meant to be used for.)

2) Cost - Google are trying to run an email service, not the worlds biggest free hosting service. Imagine the bandwidth implication of everyone looking at my junk email attachments, and me looking at everyone elses.
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Re:Files on gmail
Reply #2 on: May 04, 2006, 08:50:45 AM
Quote from: BigSoy
Its almost certainly going to be purely personal storage for a number of reasons, two of which are:

1) It would be a bad thing[size=9]tm[/size] for the world to be able to see into your mailbox (They could solve that by having some folders hosted and some not I guess, but then the gstorage stuff is unsupported by Google as far as I know, and not really what the service is meant to be used for.)

2) Cost - Google are trying to run an email service, not the worlds biggest free hosting service. Imagine the bandwidth implication of everyone looking at my junk email attachments, and me looking at everyone elses.


You say that, but look at google calender, but yeah understand what you say, thanks for the info.

gspace is nice though to stick things on there, the mail you get is cool.

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