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Back in the day when @gmail was famous for their massive free storage for email, ppl wrote scripts to chunk large files and store them as email attachments.

• ihaveajob 4y ago
  I know someone who published an academic paper on doing exactly this.
  • IshKebab 4y ago
    Doesn't sound very noteworthy tbh. It's obviously possible and the implementation is straightforward.
    • 867-5309 4y ago
      sounds like 99% of academic papers
      • IshKebab 4y ago
        Most papers at least sound like they're notable!
        • jraph 4y ago
          The less jam you have, the more you spread it out. The opposite is also true. Brilliant ideas have lead to papers that can read obvious and terribly unremarkable.
• adzm 4y ago
  People did this on AOL in the 90s as well!
  • jprd 4y ago
    Did you manage to get on the latest Mass Mail going out tonight?
  • RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
    With AOL, in the early 90’s you didn’t even need to do that. You could just reformat and reuse the floppy disks they were always sending you for free storage.
• Grollicus 4y ago
  I used this as a backup target for the longest time. Simply split the backup file into 10 MB chunks and send as mails to a gmail account. Encrypted so no privacy problems. Rock solid for years. And as it was just storing emails it was even using gmail for it's intended purpose so no TOS problems..
  • shon 4y ago
    Yup, did the exact same thing to back up all of the Wordpress installs on a free server I ran for friends.
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