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Online storage, using your gmail - probably been posted before but first I've seen it.
Haven't seen that one before but I have seen one which ships as a firefox plugin. The only problem is the 10mb or so limit that Google puts on attachments. If you have a file of 80mb it has to be split and sent as 8/9 different emails. If the file is less than 10mb then you can just send yourself an email to store it.
Gmail is beta. Prepare to lose all data on a whim.
Never gonna happen. You shouldn't trust some fly-by-night "Beta" service nobody's ever heard of with your data, but there's no way Google would ever discard its GMail users' data "on a whim". Or, indeed, any of its users' data. They're obsessional about looking after this stuff (and freely acknowledge that it's because this potentially leads to revenue).
I've just spent the day in the company of a number of Google's top engineers, and I can assure you of one thing: they aren't throwing anything away.
And, although the paranoid types out there won't believe me, those engineers - and Google as a whole - actually regard the services they provide to their users as the most important thing on the To-Do list, not as a mere corollary to their commercial activities. The financial world might be suffering the consequences of a short-term-profit-centered world view, but that isn't how Google do things.
They're already doing very nicely by thinking in terms of tens of years, rather than tens of days like the financial wizards who've made such a glorious job of things.
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