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breadiu · Sep 29, 2004, 02:34 PM

Got this today....

Dear .Mac member,

We're excited to announce that your .Mac membership now comes with 250
MB of combined .Mac Mail and iDisk storage. And, in another move
designed to make life easier as traffic grows heavier and files grow
larger, we've increased the maximum email message size to 10 MB.

If you haven't tried them yet, be sure to check out two additional
enhancements recently added to .Mac Mail. There's a new online spell
checker with a customizable dictionary available when you use your .Mac
Mail account through a browser. And you can now use aliases as email
addresses either for fun or as protection when you need to provide an
email address but aren't entirely comfortable with the requester. If
your concerns turn out to be justified, you can then simply remove the
alias and create a new one the next time you face a similar situation.

We value your membership and hope you enjoy these enhancements to your
.Mac service.

Sincerely,

The .Mac Team

Getting better...

ManOfSteal · Sep 29, 2004, 02:46 PM

Big Mac · Sep 29, 2004, 02:51 PM

Well, breadlu beat me to this post ages ago, but no one even seems to care about the announcement!

This obviously is not an earth-shattering development, rather, it's an "About Damn Time, Apple" announcement. When even auntsallyandunclejoe.com was giving away 100MB email accounts, here we were stuck with a pathetically paltry quota. I'm happy I won't have to constantly scrounge around, deleting messages in order to save precious space so that my mail does not bounce. For all of us who wondering if Apple would ever join the expanded capacity club, at least we now know.

Big Mac · Sep 29, 2004, 03:10 PM

Originally posted by manofsteal:

I don't see the previous thread you're referring to, MOS. I see three other .Mac related threads from today, but they're not on the same subject.

turtle777 · Sep 29, 2004, 03:12 PM

Originally posted by breadiu:
Getting better...

Ok ? So ?
Talk to us !

-t

P.S. IBL

ManOfSteal · Sep 29, 2004, 03:14 PM

Originally posted by Big Mac:
I don't see the previous thread you're referring to, MOS. I see three other .Mac related threads from today, but they're not on the same subject.

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=230112

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=230091

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...14#post2211158

Kenneth · Sep 29, 2004, 08:06 PM

Right.. I guess I am the first to see this upgrade this morning...

Gankdawg · 08:29 PM

Hmmmmm.....when I check how much storage I have left thru the pref pane, it's tells me I have a total capacity of 125MB, not 250MB. Double clicking on my iDisk icon on my desktop still reflects how much storage I had available before the upgrade.

EDIT: I see now that it's 250MB combined (iDisk and email). You wouldn't really get that from the email announcement from Apple though.

Big Mac · Sep 30, 2004, 01:33 AM

Originally posted by manofsteal:
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=230112

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=230091

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...14#post2211158

First thread: wrong forum (.Mac is not software)

Second thread: wrong forum again (.Mac is not OS)

Third Thread: right forum, different original topic

ManOfSteal · Sep 30, 2004, 06:28 AM

Originally posted by Big Mac:
First thread: wrong forum (.Mac is not software)

Second thread: wrong forum again (.Mac is not OS)

Third Thread: right forum, different original topic

Bored?

Turias · Oct 1, 2004, 03:29 PM

Better. They still need to up it to between 500MB and 1GB of space and give me PHP/MySQL.

Xeo · Oct 1, 2004, 03:32 PM

Originally posted by Turias:
Better. They still need to up it to between 500MB and 1GB of space and give me PHP/MySQL.

Wow, it would get useful.

But that turns into $8.50/mo for a full featured web host + a ton of extra features. A bit too much to expect.

Rumor Addict · Oct 2, 2004, 12:06 AM

Originally posted by Big Mac:

Second thread: wrong forum again (.Mac is not OS)

Yeah I really couldnt decide where to put my thread. I finally decided on OS since many of the .Mac features are integrated into the OS. I also ran a search for .Mac and found that that was where most people had put their threads in the past.

The lounge seems more like the abyss to me so I tend to try to put threads elsewhere if they seem to fit.

wulf · Oct 2, 2004, 07:43 AM

Originally posted by Rumor Addict:
Yeah I really couldnt decide where to put my thread. I finally decided on OS since many of the .Mac features are integrated into the OS. I also ran a search for .Mac and found that that was where most people had put their threads in the past.

The lounge seems more like the abyss to me so I tend to try to put threads elsewhere if they seem to fit.

I have to agree. It's nonsense to ban .mac threads from the OS X forum and even more ridiculous to consign them to the Lounge, where the signal to noise ratio is now so stupendously low.

Superchicken · Oct 2, 2004, 01:58 PM

I pay 75 bucks a year Canadian for 1gig of storage as many e-mail addies as I want, php, mySQL and other features.

if Apple went ahead and started registering people with either domain.mac.com or domain.mac domains THEN I would buy. I would switch my site to clayshaker.mac in a heart beat. Heck they could even allow you to register different domains for extra fees. Throw in like cometothissite.mac and davidspage.mac or something, being the same site would be awesome.

If Apple gave us URL.mac, php & mySQL, and at least 500 megs of storage, I would drop my host and switch to Apple. That said if they did that. They could also offer a suite of Web dev apps. The ability to mirrior a database on your own HD, and a utility to run it, they could even create their own forum script with editable templates based on phpBB or something. That'd be freaking sweet! Imagine running your own CMS and forum based on Apple written scripts that you could customize any way you wanted.

I think that would compel my friends to switch to Macs really quickly.

Adam Betts · Oct 3, 2004, 02:57 AM

Originally posted by Superchicken:
if Apple went ahead and started registering people with either domain.mac.com or domain.mac domains THEN I would buy. I would switch my site to clayshaker.mac in a heart beat. Heck they could even allow you to register different domains for extra fees. Throw in like cometothissite.mac and davidspage.mac or something, being the same site would be awesome.

If Apple gave us URL.mac, php & mySQL, and at least 500 megs of storage, I would drop my host and switch to Apple. That said if they did that. They could also offer a suite of Web dev apps. The ability to mirrior a database on your own HD, and a utility to run it, they could even create their own forum script with editable templates based on phpBB or something. That'd be freaking sweet! Imagine running your own CMS and forum based on Apple written scripts that you could customize any way you wanted.

I think that would compel my friends to switch to Macs really quickly.

I like your idea but I doubt it would be possible for Apple to get www..mac though. There's a very strict organization that decide what's to approve and what's not (ie: .biz, .tv, etc) and does not support the idea of www..___ being owned by individual, company, etc.

php & mySQL, 500+ MB would be so sweet. Be sure to send your idea to Apple via .Mac Feedback

icruise · Oct 3, 2004, 03:00 AM

Originally posted by Gankdawg:
Hmmmmm.....when I check how much storage I have left thru the pref pane, it's tells me I have a total capacity of 125MB, not 250MB. Double clicking on my iDisk icon on my desktop still reflects how much storage I had available before the upgrade.

EDIT: I see now that it's 250MB combined (iDisk and email). You wouldn't really get that from the email announcement from Apple though.

I'm not sure if I understand you, but if you're complaining that you only get 125MB for each, you should realize that that is just the default setting. Go onto the .Mac web interface to adjust the ratio of iDisk to email storage.

siMac · Oct 3, 2004, 04:06 AM

Originally posted by wulf:
It's nonsense to ban .mac threads from the OS X forum and even more ridiculous to consign them to the Lounge, where the signal to noise ratio is now so stupendously low.

I completely agree. in the absence of a .mac forum, either Software or Mac OSX seem the logical forums to post in, certainly not the lounge.

Gankdawg · Oct 3, 2004, 06:52 AM

Originally posted by Icruise:
I'm not sure if I understand you, but if you're complaining that you only get 125MB for each, you should realize that that is just the default setting. Go onto the .Mac web interface to adjust the ratio of iDisk to email storage.

Yeah, I figured it out. Funny how it wasn't publicized by Apple. I found out on xlr8. I mean, who needs 125MB for email? I know there are some people but come on. I want maximum iDisk storage so I changed it to have as little email storage as possible.