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Re: Gail, not Gmail

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I would plaster that shit with ads, it's free money.

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Re: Gail, not Gmail

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post #3

They really need to conserve bandwidth.

I think they host it on their own home server, or at least did at the time of the WIPO case, since that mentions conserving DSL bandwidth.

Re: Gail, not Gmail

#9
I would be tempted to implement a custom SMTP server that accepts every email as if that target mailbox exists and collect them on a nosql db (just for curiosity and technical challenge) though I have no idea if I'd face any legal issues.

Re: Gail, not Gmail

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post #3

They really need to conserve bandwidth.

They serve around 600MB per month (calculated based on the 2015 traffic numbers and current page size of 4.19KB).

Based on their IP, they are hosted on DigitalOcean where even the cheapest plan provides 1TB of transfer per month, so bandwidth is not an issue.

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