GMail claims its first victim in You’ve Got Post!
June 15th, 2004 Leave a comment Visited 36 times, 1 so far today
You’ve Got Post! a new email service that launched with unlimited mail space as compared to 1 GB of GMail. Sounds improbable but it was what it was. They were offering it without the GMail’s controversial advertisement system. They were planning to rely on donations from the users.
But apparently die hard GMail fans took this as an insult, started signing up accounts on You’ve Got Post! and started posting on forums inviting random users to mass mail them huge files. Of course such unexpected rush of traffic and server loads could not be sustained by the company in question and they had to take the offer back. Now You’ve Got Post! is back to a more logistically acceptable 20 megs.
Now the question arises, is it fair? Just because you like 1 particular service, does that give you a right to damage the other services? It’s so easy now to generate a DDOS attack, Google bomb now than ever looking at the popularity of discussion forums and channels. This gives illegitimate powers in the hands of normal web users. And this makes internet not as pleasant as it should have been.
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June 30th, 2004 at 10:53 am
Seriously…did some random newcomer actually think that Google, or its users, ever viewed YGP as competition? I would doubt that Google is aware that this email provider (and I use that term loosely) exists. They did talk big about providing unlimited storage – and then proceeded to delete the accounts of anyone that sent a simple email. I was never involved with the site that is blamed for the “attack” (again, loosely, as the admin of the YGP site did ENCOURAGE people – challenge them even – to send and receive as much as they could in the now-defunct forum).
The admin also regularly READS the emails in each account and deletes them on a whim. Anything that she doesnt want to have in there, she will remove. I cannot imagine a greater violation of privacy than to have some random human sitting there reading my correspondence that may well have private information including account information and other personal data.
YGP forbids its users to send/receive email to/from Gmail account holders.
That is purely childish. They are trying to become infamous at the hands of a giant who could not care less about their little parasite of a “service”.
People did not ABUSE YGP because they LIKE Gmail better – they tried using the service as they were challenged to by the admin. Perhaps it is the admin who encouraged this JUST so that Gmail could be blamed (big name = big bandwagon to jump on) and then removed the forum so the evidence of their actions could not be seen by the general public.
The admin of YGP called the users of the service “assholes” repeatedly (I do have an email from said admin to prove this – and it was not me she was referring to in this email – though she probably will now).
Now what kind of customer service is that? Is that the new face of dotcom service?
Somehow I cannot imagine ANY of the big cheese at Google calling their end-users “assholes”, especially not in public forums or in emails sent to other clients.
In the end. my point is simply that YouveGotPost designed its own demise, NOT Google. If you enjoy having your emails read by a bitter woman and randomly deleted (cant have evidence of a conversation between said admin and a client now can you?)sign up today. I couldnt tell you what the storage is currently at with YGP as emails never seem to stick around long enough to build up.