One year ago today, I [thought](http://www.momathome.com/viewfromhome/misc/april_1st.php) it was an April Fools joke. It wasn’t. Google really did launch [GMail](http://www.gmail.com) with 1GB of mail storage. That seemed like a lot back then, didn’t it? Now everyone’s giving away a ton of space with their free email.
Today, Gmail is celebrating their birthday by giving everyone an extra gig of storage! 2 GB for everyone, and the docs say that they plan to go bigger than that as they can. Interesting enough, my account doesn’t say (yet) that I have 2 GB. Instead, it’s at 1318MB. From the discussion on the GMail user group forum, Google is inching everyone up so within a day or so the account should be at 2 GB.
I still like Gmail and I use it for all my mailing lists because of the threaded conversation features. My only complaint now is that I can’t empty the trash in a single click. You can only take action on 100 messages at a time. So if I have 600 messages in the trash can, to empty it I have to “Select: All” then “Delete Forever” then “Older Messages” to pull up the next 100, repeat steps 5 times. What is so difficult about an “empty trash” button? It appears that Google doesn’t want you to delete messages at all. Why should you? If your box fills up, they’ll just give you a bigger box.
Getting Gmail if you want it is a no-brainer these days, but if you can’t find an invite anywhere else I got ‘em. 50 of them to be exact. Just comment to get.
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