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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/31/1111862522200.html

One terabyte of free online email storage is on offer from British researchers beta testing a quantum-based, grid computing spam filter.

The project, run by London's Supercomputing Methods Experimental Group (SMEG), aims to prove the commercial viability of the group's revolutionary spam filtering technology announced two years ago.

It uses microscopic black holes - created when cosmic rays travelling at near the speed of light collide with tiny particles in the Earth's atmosphere - to form a grid of ultra high speed "write only" memory.

The group's one terabyte SMEGmail project will initially be invitation-only, and the announcement comes as Yahoo! increases the inbox capacity of its free web mail service to one gigabyte - matching what is offered by Google's Gmail and exceeding what Microsoft's Hotmail offers.

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― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

At this point Im not sure if they're even trying, this year.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry, I'm just enjoying the name there. Where's Dan?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

I just want to be able to send 100MB attachments.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

"Just make sure to clean your account daily."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

lister@smeg. com

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Somehow I knew that was coming.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

"Just as Schrodinger's cat is both dead and alive until you open the box, when your inbox is reduced to an sub-atomic level every email will be both spam and non-spam until it is opened," Knott says.

brilliant

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

While looking after my parents house on the weekend, I had a chance to enjoy their lovely Smeg appliances. No fooling.

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

SMEGMAil?!?!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I just realised the link at the top. I thought you were making it up Trayce.

'Shirley Knott' is weak, and the article really loses it with the thing about interplanetary spam.

And then they've got the nerve to try and spriuk a subscription to you at the end! Well the joke's on them for that.

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

I see Roxy does not know her Red Dwarf.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

april fools!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

SMEGmail offers 1 terabyte storage

By Adam Turner
April 1, 2005

― stephen morris, Friday, 1 April 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Something stinks here. It's a good idea but the implementation seems so cheesy.

― bro jackson (he knows) (deangulberry), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

ya think?

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

From the people that brought you the MooLatte ...

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Its too easy.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

'Shirley Knott' is weak, and the article really loses it with the thing about interplanetary spam.
haha I didnt notice the byline, but yeah thats terrible. At least in previous years the Age tried - mind you I havent got a paper copy today yet. One year they did a full page Compaq commercial advertising a new mouse that recharged laptop batteries when the mouse ball moved around. I liked that one. Subtle, believable.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

The developers are still struggling with location-based SMEGsearch, which at the moment tells you every pizza shop in the world is simultaneously your nearest fast food outlet.

But will SMEGsearch tell me where I can get a duckbutter pizza?

― bro jackson (he knows) (deangulberry), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

And also from the Age:

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/Linux-looks-to-Hilton-for-exposure/2005/03/31/1111862521987.html

A new group set up to advance the cause of free and open source software has decided to recruit socialite Paris Hilton into its ranks as a means to gain more exposure.

The Open Source Development League said it was recruiting Ms Hilton because it knew of nobody else who had managed to gain such a degree of exposure despite having no apparent learning in this direction.

"What she managed to do with that video was amazing. If that wasn't enough, then there was the mobile phone address book episode," Jeremy Bleats, the chief executive officer of the League, told a crowded media conference on the banks of the Yarra in Melbourne early today.

Bleats said the only thing that was holding back Linux and other software of the FOSS genre was a lack of exposure. "People should be aware of the breadth and scope of what FOSS has to offer and Ms Hilton can definitely advance that objective," he said. "She can expose things like nobody else can."

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

Some of my (geeky) friends FELL for that one. I cant believe it.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

lister-l@smeg.com

haw! I R nerd.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

JON WILLIAMS WHY DONT YOU FIND THIS FUNNY DAMMIT.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

Maybe his sense of humour is circumscribed.

― moley (moley), Friday, 1 April 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

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