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pram
Jun 10, 2001
google has been randomly deleting gmail accounts. back up yr data before you get scroogled :grin:

https://www.google.com/settings/takeout

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Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




posting in the no click zone

Joe 30330
Dec 20, 2007

"We have this notion that if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

As the audience reluctantly began to applaud during the silence, Biden tried to fix his remarks.

"Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids -- no, I really mean it." Biden said.
I back up clouds to other clouds

ConanTheLibrarian
Aug 13, 2004


dis buch is late
Fallen Rib
its clouds all the way up

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



what if its an imap account and theyre all also on my computer right now

will they be deleted if google fucks with my poo poo?

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

posting in the no click zone

pigfarmer

SYSV Fanfic
Sep 9, 2003

by Pragmatica

pram posted:

google has been randomly deleting gmail accounts. back up yr data before you get scroogled :grin:

https://www.google.com/settings/takeout

I'm doing this just to see what format they give you the gmail stuff in.

SYSV Fanfic
Sep 9, 2003

by Pragmatica
.ppt prob.

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
back up yr gmail to your google drive

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
they would be insane to delete my account

pram
Jun 10, 2001
valeyard gonna get scroogled. all his correspondence w/ the maid cafe girls gonna be deleted like tears in rain

Space-Pope
Aug 13, 2003

by zen death robot
remember when gmail was invite only? and when they first came out, the big deal was the gigabytes of storage they offered?

pram
Jun 10, 2001
it was a whole gigabyte my friend

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
hotmail gave you like 50 megs at the time

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

i don't use gmail. i have a yahoo account (formerly rocketmail) which i registered in 1997

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Space-Pope posted:

remember when gmail was invite only? and when they first came out, the big deal was the gigabytes of storage they offered?

i literally registered like 5 gmails at the time just to have ENOUGH

i dont remember them any longer tho :(

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



wait google probably deleted them







those fuckers

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

pram posted:

valeyard gonna get scroogled. all his correspondence w/ the maid cafe girls gonna be deleted like tears in rain

lol, that was my electronics lab partner

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
i've had a hotmale account since forever but thanks for the warning, op

pram
Jun 10, 2001

Sweevo posted:

i don't use gmail. i have a yahoo account (formerly rocketmail) which i registered in 1997


Suspicious posted:

i've had a hotmale account since forever but thanks for the warning, op

hey no one loving cares. durr i use my 20 year old cox email. im an idiot. idiot, and proud of it. since 1997. hurrr stfu

leftist heap
Feb 28, 2013

Fun Shoe
i just use squirrel mail on my old university email account. should i back that up op?

A Wheezy Steampunk
Jul 16, 2006

High School Grads Eligible!
fastmail is better than gmail

pram
Jun 10, 2001

rrrrrrrrrrrt posted:

i just use squirrel mail on my old university email account. should i back that up op?

yes. prudence never hurts

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



i had hot male i think but the one i had the longest before my gmail was the http://www.softhome.net thing

its poo poo btw but they had webmail p much before anyone else

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



oh sweet

Welcome back. Your account was disabled for lack of use, but now that you have returned we have reenabled it for you.

Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe
So it's like when Lowtax used to get drunk and randomly ban people?

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

pram posted:

it was a whole gigabyte my friend

there was also a counter on the log in page showing ur storage increasing in real time. it was sitll doing it even when it was adding like 0.00001gb a second

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Doc Block posted:

So it's like when Lowtax used to get drunk and randomly ban people?

yeah except when you come back after a ban there arent 500 pms about viagra in your inbox

Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe
maybe not in your inbox

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Stux posted:

there was also a counter on the log in page showing ur storage increasing in real time. it was sitll doing it even when it was adding like 0.00001gb a second

no, that came a a year or two after it launched iirc

Progressive JPEG
Feb 19, 2003

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

fastmail is better than gmail

Baxate
Feb 1, 2011

i use iCloud mail, op

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Doc Block posted:

maybe not in your inbox

:negative:

qntm
Jun 17, 2009

Space-Pope posted:

remember when gmail was invite only? and when they first came out, the big deal was the gigabytes of storage they offered?

best april fool's day ever

pram
Jun 10, 2001

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

fastmail is better than gmail

I see this a lot. why is it better

A Wheezy Steampunk
Jul 16, 2006

High School Grads Eligible!

pram posted:

I see this a lot. why is it better

standard imap instead of this gmail tagging bull poo poo

great support

less downtime than gmail :v:

they have neat blog posts: http://blog.fastmail.com/2012/11/26/inter-tab-communication-using-local-storage/

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



how much can i put on poor tier icloud?

cause i apparently have 2.6 gigs on gmail

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
fast mail does look good but not as cheap as I would want. it doesnt need to be free but its like $100s a year

pram
Jun 10, 2001
ok i gave fastmail a fair shot, more than any idiot here in yospos would do. and its poo poo. setting up 2 factor auth is incredibly bad

https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/2fa.html

i give it 4 failcats out of 5

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slam flanders
Jan 13, 2015

gfail

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