1 Account per person?

[Marc Loehrwald]

Did Google announce, how many Accounts a single person is allowed to
have? Some people on this list already said that they have more then
one account.

I'm just wondering because Google can offer that amount on storage
only if they are able to sell Ad's. If alot of people have an Account
only to store Mp3's or other files and they rarely login to it, the
whole business model wouldn't work.

What do you think would happen, if Gmail would go public tomorrow? How
much load would that put on the system?
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+49-163-430-3563

[Kendel]

> Did Google announce, how many Accounts a single person is allowed to
> have? Some people on this list already said that they have more then
> one account.

I don't believe they have said, no. Mind you, I do think it is kinda
tacky to do that on the subscribers's parts, unless one really thinks
they have need for separate accounts (I have a friend who has three
accounts: one for him, one for his wife, and one joint account for the
both of them).

Beyond that, hell. I've got some 12000 messages on my account already
and am using a mere 4% of my caapcity. Once Gmail lets me rip out
attachments, this will probably drop right back to 1%. When I get
bored of this list and nuke it as well, I will probably drop to some
fraction of a %.

[Jez Hancock]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:38:16 +0200, Marc Loehrwald
<marc.lo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What do you think would happen, if Gmail would go public tomorrow? How
> much load would that put on the system?

I don't think they'll go public until a certain 'critical mass' is
reached via the invite system. After a few million are signed up say
via the invitation system I reckon the service will go public.

Using the.invite system Gmail can throttle the maximum number of new
members that can sign up at any one time. This is no doubt going a
long way to making sure the various systems involved
(registration/accounts/actual mail servers) don't die in a heap.

Just my 2 cents.

--
Jez Hancock
- System Administrator / PHP Developer

http://munk.nu/
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http://ipfwstats.sf.net/ - ipfw peruser traffic logging

[Marc Loehrwald]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:43:06 -0400, Kendel <kke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't believe they have said, no. Mind you, I do think it is kinda
> tacky to do that on the subscribers's parts, unless one really thinks

It's not, that I planed on having multiple accounts. (All Mails I
saved in the last years only sum up to 300 MB in Outlook)

I just was wondering what would happen, if they'd open the gates...

> Beyond that, hell. I've got some 12000 messages on my account already

Are you saying 12.000? =-0

I have 558 Mails in my Account and that makes 1,4%

[Marc Loehrwald]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:47:14 +0100, Jez Hancock <jez.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think they'll go public until a certain 'critical mass' is
> reached via the invite system. After a few million are signed up say
> via the invitation system I reckon the service will go public.

That does make sense. But it will also take some time: someone on the
list wrote a couple of days ago, that they have around 200.000
subscribers by now.

[bartheq]

Well I got 5902 +163 in trash which together make 18% /177MB/
If I got rid of attachments from some forwarded messages I'd probably
get under 100MB (:

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:50:53 +0200, Marc Loehrwald
<marc.lo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have 558 Mails in my Account and that makes 1,4%
>

--

b.

There's no place like 127.0.0.1

[Kendel]

> > Beyond that, hell. I've got some 12000 messages on my account already
>
> Are you saying 12.000? =-0

Vast majority is plain-text only, but no: I was making a[n
exaggerated] point that by the time I feel I need more than 1Gig, the
next round of Webmail Wars will have begun and everyone will be
offering more space.

[Christopher]

There is a service (I can't seem to remember what it is, and I can't
find it) that offers /THREE/ gigs of storage, though the service seems
somewhat weird to me. But that's my opinion... this service isn't
well-known to the public, I do not think, and so is kind of off to the
side. Also, this service is free.
Anyway, I have another account that I will be using for school, and
basically, for my "secondary" email address, as I don't want my main
one to get flooded with spam. Only a few people know that one, and I
want to keep it that way. I have some invites, by the way, so if you
want, email me and tell me why you deserve one. :D If I like your
explanation (or if you want, tell a story-funny, or otherwise), I might
send you an invite.
God bless, and adios.
~Christopher

[Gordon Stewart]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:33:58 -0700, Christopher <chris....@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have some invites, by the way, so if you
> want, email me and tell me why you deserve one. :D If I like your
> explanation (or if you want, tell a story-funny, or otherwise), I might
> send you an invite.
> God bless, and adios.
> ~Christopher

One suggestion - That ive used - Is to include a URL of world-clock
in your email

So you can tell people when you're going to accept requests for invites etc...

EG :-

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/custom.html?sort=1

I'll be up till 2 a.m. Wednesday - NZ Wellington time :)

(I'll actually go to bed after - But I dont want to have 10-15 invites
after I go to bed - & then send out some & theyve already got one :) )

- Did that make sense ?

--

G Stewart
new_zealan...@yahoogroups.com

[Sri Kat]

Here's the official word on it:

From: Gmail Team <gmail-...@google.com>
To: sri...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:13:30 -0700
Subject: Re: [#9636700] Number of Gmail accounts one can have
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Hello Sri,

Thanks for your message.

Our Terms of Use states that "Users may not create multiple user accounts
or create user accounts by automated means or under false or fraudulent
pretenses. Thus, we certainly encourage you to maintain only one Gmail
account.

We hope you enjoy Google's approach to email.

Sincerely,

The Gmail Team

Original Message Follows:
------------------------
From: sri...@gmail.com
Subject: Number of Gmail accounts one can have
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 03:38:13 -0000

Dear Google,

In your program policies page is written

"Prohibited Actions

In addition to (and/or as some examples of) the violations described in
Section 3 of the Terms of Use, users may not:

Create multiple user accounts or create user accounts by automated means
or under false or fraudulent pretenses"

Does the above mean that

1) users may not create multiple user accounts by automated means

and/or

2) users may not create multiple user accounts under fraudulent pretenses

OR

users may not create multiple user accounts whatsoever, i.e, even
legitimately?

For example, if say, I've a Gmail account and got invitation from another
friend, can I sign up for it? or will I get problems in the future and
have my accounts suspended because I have more than one?

I hope this question isn't considered too trivial.

Regards,

Sri.

GmailAddress: sri...@gmail.com
QuestionTopic: other
Name: Sri Kat
OS: winxp
Browser: Internet Explorer 6.x

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[Marc Loehrwald]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:48:15 +0530, Sri Kat <neo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> pretenses. Thus, we certainly encourage you to maintain only one Gmail
> account.

Now we have it officially! :-)

Thanks, Sri

[Gordon Stewart]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:23:32 +0200, Marc Loehrwald
<marc.lo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:48:15 +0530, Sri Kat <neo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > pretenses. Thus, we certainly encourage you to maintain only one Gmail
> > account.
>
> Now we have it officially! :-)
>
> Thanks, Sri

Ok

I'll assume that we can DELETE extra accounts - if we have any...

I'll wait a few days for my brother to reply - But I know hes very busy

- New baby :) (Im an uncle now :) )
- House renovations
- Exams (to get qualified in some business course)

etc.. etc.. etc...

--

G Stewart
Has Gmail Invites - Email me direct
new_zealan...@yahoogroups.com

[Marc Loehrwald]

Hi!

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:43:06 -0400, Kendel <kke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Beyond that, hell. I've got some 12000 messages on my account already
> and am using a mere 4% of my caapcity.

How did you figure out, how many messages you have in your Account?
Under All Mail I can only see the number of conversations, not the
number of individual messages...

[Kendel]

> How did you figure out, how many messages you have in your Account?
> Under All Mail I can only see the number of conversations, not the
> number of individual messages...

Because I am using Gmail Loader to upload some 14,000 messages from my
Outlook Express mailbox, and I was a good way through it.

In other words, just a plain old-fashioned educated guess.

I'm almost done with it (just 2.5 months to go!) and am still only at 7%.

[Marc Loehrwald]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:13:42 -0400, Kendel <kke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Because I am using Gmail Loader to upload some 14,000 messages from my
> Outlook Express mailbox, and I was a good way through it.
>
> In other words, just a plain old-fashioned educated guess.

I see... That means, there is probably no way to find out how many
messages I have in my account!?

> I'm almost done with it (just 2.5 months to go!) and am still only at 7%.

But how are you going to get them all out of Gmail again, in case you
find a more comfortable Interface/Service? :-)

[Kendel]

> But how are you going to get them all out of Gmail again,
> in case you find a more comfortable Interface/Service?

Well, I (in this case) have the whole thing also maintained in an
Access database. I'm using it as an excuse to learn how to manipulate
MS products so that I can at some point use it, rather than some
3rd-party app, to move messages around.

And at the moment I am still maintaining membership with my POP3
account (I ain't stupid) ... I just like Gmail's search functionality
better, for obvious reasons.

> I see... That means, there is probably no way to find
> out how many messages I have in my account!?

Not at the moment, though -supposedly- they are working on alternate
views, so maybe that will one day be.

[Marc Loehrwald]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:35:27 -0400, Kendel <kke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And at the moment I am still maintaining membership with my POP3
> account (I ain't stupid) ... I just like Gmail's search functionality
> better, for obvious reasons.

:-)

So, Gmail is not your Main Account!?

> Not at the moment, though -supposedly- they are working on alternate
> views, so maybe that will one day be.

Looking forward to that! I just hope, that the Interface remains -
Google-alike - simple! :-)

[Kendel]

> So, Gmail is not your Main Account!?

Well, nowadays it is. I still maintain another I had some years ago
as, even though I have migrated several ISPs since then, my parents
took it over (I had created subaccounts for them) and I saw no reason
to abandon it "just because".

> Looking forward to that! I just hope, that the
> Interface remains - Google-alike - simple! :-)

I'm certain it will. They have strived to keep down bloat, and I
hardly see them going the Microsoft route any time soon.

[Ashish Poddar]

well well well.. if the google itself says only one account per
person.. then why does it allow invitations being sent to a gmail
account in the first place !!!

just a thought !

with regards,
Ashish.

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:48:15 +0530, Sri Kat <neo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

--
Ashish Poddar
Student, MS (Computer Engineering)
Syracuse University,
New York, USA.

Yahoo Id - ashish_poddar
MSN Id - ashish...@yahoo.com

Mahatma Gandhi - "A man is but the product of his thoughts what he
thinks, he becomes"

[Cameron Bulock]

An easy way to see the total messages are to create a 'Read' label and
an 'Unread' label. It will then show how many read and unread
messages you have.

>
> I see... That means, there is probably no way to find out how many
> messages I have in my account!?

--
Cameron Bulock

[Kendel]

That doesn't seem to be correct, as it is telling me I have 5632 ...
and I know I have some 14,000+

More likely it is telling you how many threads have an Read mail in them?

Well, actually, my label doesn't show any number next to it at all --
I am just citing the number that appears in the upper right of the
screen when I am viewing a label.

[Ashish Poddar]

in fact the thread which have some messages read and some unread are
posted for both the labels .

-ashish

[Cameron Bulock]

Wow, good points, never mind the labels.

--
Cameron Bulock

[Kendel]

> They don't ask for any actual ID. Just a name. For example I have an
> account, my husband has one, our kids have all one each, all on the
> one computer! Are we only supposed to have one account on one
> computer?

Unless you think Google has ways of seeing how many people use a
particular machine, why ask?

It's WEBMAIL. The idea is you can use it from any machine, public or
private. And public means multiple users.

[T. M. Tracy]

-seconds kendal-
They just don't want people eating up tons of user names like they do
on yahoo and stuff...but it's going to happen whether they want it to
or not...

--
T. M. Tracy
www.phstheatre.org
tmt...@gmail.com

[Ashish Poddar]

well after the introduction of labels, and with 1gb.. there will be
rare cases who actually need more than 1 account.. at most they might
be using one for their original self and one for their madeup self of
some sort for some weird reason!!!

multiple account atleast for me earlier meant a way to organize the
incoming mails which is now done easily thru labelling ... and
furthermore with 1gb capacity the need for multiple accounts isn't
there other than some special and for some weird reasons...

with regards,
ashish.