[Offtopic] Yahoo's unlimited email

[Stephen Digby]

Email storage makes it hard to share.
Google docs show the way - shared space where you can exchange docs AND versions of docs with tracking !
One way alternative to make docs available to target audience without collaboration would be a version of a
"picasa" type interface where you could have folders selectively published to the world or to "invitees".

Google docs for collaboration, picasa docs for dissemination.

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-----Original Message-----
From: offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of victor rajewski
Sent: Wednesday, 28 March 2007 9:57 PM
To: Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Offtopic] Yahoo's unlimited email

On 3/28/07, Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> Yahoo are now offering unlimited email storage.
> They say it is in response to a growing number of people that use 
> their email as cheap online storage.
> Does anyone have a unit along the lines of "organising your life and 
> work flow through email"?
> Are we still teaching File organisation with folders and mapped drives 
> and e-lockers when we should maybe be looking at "managing your files 
> with email"?
> Where it was once "File- Save As" its now "Righto class email your 
> work to yourselves...."

Surely this is purely because no-one (well, apart from apple, but no-one uses them anyway) has created an easy
to use, workable online storage system? That said, I have a label (labels are a godsend compared to folders)
in my gmail account called 'files' which gets automatically assigned to any messages I send to myself. Maybe
instead of encouraging this ugly usage of the email system, we could just wait another year or two until the
desktop and the internets converge?
It'll happen real soon now, I promise.

vik
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