News Planet-Tolkien runs rings around Gmail

Ah my preciooussssssss 1Gb, Nasty Hobitses can'ts have youse for freee....

This from ZDNet:

Move over Google, here comes Middle Earth.

British-based Planet-Tolkien.com is the latest company to offer a Web-based email product with 1 gigabyte of storage -- a trend that kicked off in late March with the test release of Google's Gmail service.

Since then, a number of copycats have come forward, including Web portal Lycos. Meanwhile, Google rival Yahoo has boosted storage for its Web-based email service from 10 megabytes to 100MB.

Planet-Tolkien founder Tarrant Costelloe said the site's service launched on Wednesday and that it has signed up 1,800 customers for the $7 (£3.80)-a-month offering.

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Doesn't sound an unreasonable price either - 1Gb, no ads. I do suppose there are the marauding bands of Uruk Hai to put up with though, and Saurumon spams like a bitch, I've heard.