Saturday, October 23, 2004 1:25 AM szurgot

What's the big deal about GMail File Shell Extension?

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

While it seems to be a neat idea that somebody did it, I can't understand why everybody gets excited about it.

It's seems like it would be against the terms of service, inappropriate usage even if it isn't against the terms of service, and generally an inefficient way to add 1 GB to your computer (that's probably got 200+ anyway <grin>)

And if you're using if for a "download site" when your away from your computer, wouldn't just emailing yourself the files, and using the native gmail client be more appropriate than setting up a tool to download files?

Just my .02...

Comments

# re: What's the big deal about GMail File Shell Extension?

Saturday, October 23, 2004 8:47 AM by Geoff Appleby

Gotta agree with you on this. It's very cool concept, and pretty sweet that it got implemented. But really...why?

# re: What's the big deal about GMail File Shell Extension?

Saturday, October 23, 2004 9:49 AM by Ron Krauter


..and I thought I was the only one who felt like this.

# re: What's the big deal about GMail File Shell Extension?

Saturday, October 23, 2004 12:31 PM by Karl

as I plunk in a 2nd 250giger..I'm somehow forced to agree....
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=59

# re: What's the big deal about GMail File Shell Extension?

Saturday, October 23, 2004 12:35 PM by aaron

Limit on email to gmail is a few megs, so no, you couldn't just mail it to yourself. I assume the file extension does the same thing the unix version did awhile back, which is to split up the files among multiple mails.

If you don't have an ftp server or corporate share (even if you do, they aren't likely to be that big) there's not a lot of good ways to get near-gigabyte files between remote machines.

You could also easily link accounts to get multi-gig transfers.

# re: What's the big deal about GMail File Shell Extension?

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 4:28 PM by jw

its a free mp3 server, didnt you know ;-)