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this used to be a problem in the early 00s. I don’t think spam filtering was as good back then so protecting your public email from spam was necessary. Also th
by xyst 2y ago
this used to be a problem in the early 00s. I don’t think spam filtering was as good back then so protecting your public email from spam was necessary.
Also this was a time when mail boxes were often allocated 10-25 megabytes. So spam bots could easily flood your email.
- WirelessGigabit 2y agoWhen I signed up for Hotmail it was 2MB. Then on April 1st, 2004 Google launched wasn't an April 1st joke... GMail with 1GB! I remember getting a beta invite and inviting others.
- ibcj 2y agoI had to buy my invite then, like a sucker. Apparently, I didn't make the cut of my friends who got legit invites to pass around.