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Dubious ethical activity
Authored by: fds on Oct 05, '04 01:14:42PM

Or you could just get a spymac.com account. Same free 1 GB of space plus officially sanctioned free POP3 access. Only trouble is it seems to block all yahoogroups.com traffic.

By the way, I personally don't give a rat's ass about causing any kind of trouble to google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and the like, a sentiment I'm sure many of us share. Comparing that to abusing macosxhints and Rob's resources is quite a stretch.

If Google can't actually handle you filling up your 1 GB and using it for anything you please, they shouldn't be offering it in the first place.



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Dubious ethical activity
Authored by: chyna4xena on Oct 06, '04 01:35:33AM
Although it might seem OK to cause 'trouble' for multi-billion dollar companies, in this case, that 'trouble' won't affect Google, Inc any, but it WILL affect Gmail users.

It isn't difficult to understand: If Google, Inc starts losing ad revenue from Gmail because people use these third-party methods to access their accounts instead of going to the Gmail site (and getting the ads) then Google will either stop providing the Gmail service, or they will start charging for it.

Your last line missed the point entirely - Google has no problem with a user filling up their 1Gb, nor do they have a problem with you using it for anything you please. They do (and I do, and other Gmail users do) have a problem with users circumventing the advertising because that means eventually no Gmail for anyone.



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Dubious ethical activity
Authored by: vonleigh on Oct 07, '04 11:49:34AM

Just because a couple of nerds figure out alternative uses, doesn't mean that all of a sudden they'll cut the service for the other 99% of the using population.

Even a hint like this, because it has some unix commands, will be glossed over by the majority.



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Authored by: osxpounder on Oct 24, '04 01:55:53AM

Sure it does.

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