How much is too much?

The modern version of Deewar could have had this as one of its dialogues.
Amitabh : Mere Paas mobile hai,laptop hai,mp3 player hai aur 1 software firm ki naukri hai.Tumhare paas kya hai?
Shashi Kapoor : Mere Paas Google mail id hai,Rediffmail Id hai...!!

One cannot imagine the extent and growth of internet and computer media in last decade or so.Some years back during my college days a 2 GB Hard disk was the best and biggest thing you could have for storage and now you would be the laughing stock if you still hang around with such things.80 GBs are the norm these days and apart from that you have loads of GBs in online space from various email providers.

Where are we heading?

With so much online space and companies such as google coming with the novel idea of retaining all your mails from womb to tomb,are we turning cyberspace into a big online junkyard? Who would anyway be interested in the promotional mail selling a Britney spears Audio CD in 2050? So,in my opinion, it always makes sense to delete the unwanted mails with time for the sake of ease of management of your mailbox and saving in time that occurs because of an uncluttered mailbox.And if you follow the delete regime religiously,you would never require more than 10 MB or at the max 100 MB space(unless you are thinking of sending MPEG files of movies as attachments!).And I am just making up a case for individual users and not the corporate ones (who otherwise never use such free email services).But the irony is that if one email provider comes up with a new feature,the other competitors follow suit without reason and logic(though Yahoo still has some sanity left).Google sneezes and every other mail provider catches cold!!