[extropy-chat] Gmail invites available

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:05:09PM +0930, Emlyn wrote:

> Personally, I was thinking of writing some software to use a gmail
> account as an offsite backup. My thinking was along the lines of using

http://www.google.com/gmail/help/terms_of_use.html

> POP3 and SMTP to communicate, using something like "Pop goes the
> gmail" to get pop access to the account (SMTP too? there must be a
> way), and writing a nice gui thing to sit on top and do hotsyncing
> with a local folder, similar to PDA hotsyncing. After all, these
> accounts are 1gb (each), and they are backed up by google.

http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html
 
> Does something like that interest anyone?

Not really. Colo and vservers are dropping in price like lead baloons.
Just use a WebDAV share like .mac or sftp.

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