Monday, March 06, 2006

GMail -> Fmail

Agent Pal recently made a time travel and here’s something interesting he has seen about Gmail.

The web mail from Google Gmail which was launched in 2005 with a mind boggling 1GB inbox kept increasing its inbox size ever since. The counter kept ticking and Gmail also adviced its users not to delete any mails from their inbox. The counter finally stopped when it reached infinity and there was nothing beyond. So finally Gmail had a fixed size inbox.

Soon users started complaining about messages bouncing due to filled inboxes. Users were unable to clear up the zillions of messages accumulated in their inboxes and started switching to other services like Hotmail which offered a full 2 MB inbox. Gmail was heading towards bankruptcy and in came the Indian Giant Mindtree.

They bought Gmail and renamed it as Fmail (No its not what you think !!!). Fmail stands for Flush Mail and Mindtree had designed the Page Flush algorithm to clear out the mails from the GMail inboxes and free up the space. Mindtree has deployed a mega cluster of thousands of PCs to perform this mammoth operation.

Once you log into fmail.com, you see a counter ticking 19029494934839489398575923989487924724977938423230348984 mails have so far been deleted from the Gmail servers. Your account is still in the queue, Please wait patiently till the Page Flush algorithm picks your inbox to be flushed out. Thank You.

So folks who are using Gmail without any idea of where the delete mail button is, please find it out and start clearing up your mails today itself.

Cheers,
Agent Pal

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

hi Agent Pal ,

thanks for the info .