Email Usage
Thursday, April 14, 2005
New poll. I haven’t put the poll form in the RSS feed, because I’m not sure what will happen if you try and fill out the form within the RSS feed. So you will have to go to the entry to fill out the form.
Anyway, the question is, how much email space do you use? If you have more than one email account, just pick the one you use the most. Since Yahoo recently announced 1GB of storage to free users, and Gmail users already have 2GB (and higher), I’ve been wondering whether that much space is really needed. I use Gmail, and I only have about 11 MB in that account. I don’t think I could get up to 1GB in a long, long, time.
My dad only has about a maximum of 10 emails in his inbox at any one time. He deletes most of his mail after he reads it. When I told him about Gmail, he first wanted to know how many kilobytes were in a gigabyte, and then said there was no point in him getting a Gmail address because he didn’t need it. 
Also, if you do use up a lot of space in your email account, what’s in there? Pictures, movies, powerpoint presentations, songs?
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1. tiiana
said:
on Apr 14 2005 @ 04:16 PM
As soon as I get my email, I delete it or file it away. My gmail account is used solely for spam so that has a lot (59mb so far).
2. Lynda
said:
on Apr 14 2005 @ 06:25 PM
I love gmail. I archive new email with any substance in it as soon as I read it or no longer need to refer to it. I only delete emails if they’re a simple notification or some sort of marketing.
I rely on referring to previous emails received FAR too much to be able to delete EVERYTHING I get. Current gmail storage is 107 MB. I’m surprised it isn’t more.
3. Yvonne
said:
on Apr 14 2005 @ 09:43 PM
Yikes, I’m different from the both of you. I don’t archive any of my emails at all. I use the labels sometimes but that’s it. And apparently I get less email too.
4. Mariann
said:
on Apr 17 2005 @ 09:42 PM
I retain all of my teaching email on the mail server for one complete semester. and then I archive it onto CD. The majority of my disk space goes toward student emails, student responses to discussion/writing prompts, and student assignments. Next semester, I’ll be using Gmail since I’ll be able to retain quite a few semesters’ worth of student material without worrying.