[Offtopic] Yahoo's unlimited email

Fri Mar 30 21:05:09 EST 2007

Absolutely! hear! hear! ( Hence the importance of Open Source)
Schools must start to abandon proprietary file formats if they want to 
truly share knowledge (our fundamental reason for existence - apart from 
day care) and resources.
Cameron

Stephen Digby wrote:
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> The best thing that we could do to improve the conditions of the poor, 
> needy and hungry in the world would be to continue the undermining of 
> international copyright and patent law which have grown over a few 
> centuries in the modern equivalent of the "fencing the commons" and in 
> the process have "virtually" destroyed the belief in and practice of 
> freedom of information or technological progress for the "common good".
>  
> Holidays near !!!
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> [mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Roland Gesthuizen
> *Sent:* Thursday, 29 March 2007 8:54 PM
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> I guess that there is no right answer or correct method of working .. 
> but one thing is for certain, the rules and usage practices are 
> changing.  We live in interesting times. Many things about how I work 
> have changed, many things have not.  I dont think the number of 
> e-mails that I send out has really increased over the past 15 years, 
> my work productivity will probably only improve incrementally with 
> more technology. Some things are cute such as the move by Google to 
> grab the middle ground, more RAM, more storage space and more bandwidth.
>
> I hope that we can stop occasionally to take a breath and think, what 
> are we 'really' doing to make the world a better place to life in? Not 
> just one that caters for my needs but the poor, needy and hungry. I 
> guess that is why I am fascinated by open source and the OLPC 
> projects. If I can inspire just that much in my students, it has all 
> been worth while.
>
> Regards Roland
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> On 29/03/07, *Stephen Digby* <digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au 
> <mailto:digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
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>     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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>     On 3/28/07, Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au
>     <mailto: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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