Brajeshwar posts his observations on what happens when you exceed the 2GB gmail storage limit.
Mildly interesting but, frankly, a bit dumb. If you're approaching the limit, take countermeasures. In the comments someone suggests downloading to thunderbird or outlook. I strongly recommend that no one should trust any web-based system with all their email. Gmail and yahoo (and particularly hotmail) have been known to lose email. Yahoo and Hotmail will expire an email address if the email is not checked for a certain period (a month or two), apparently MySpace will take profile names whenever they find a commercial reason to do so ("Bones"). Gmail doesn't have that weakness, but there are recent comments that Gmail seems to be slowing down. The company isn't going to go away, and it's as good a web-based brand as any, but trusting gmail completely is a bug (and trusting hotmail or yahoo even just a little is a stupidity and not merely a bug).
So backup your email. And why think about removing spam? Just go ahead and do it. Unless you're collecting spam for whatever reason, in which case, forward your spam to another email address or (if that can't be done, i haven't tried it, frankly), forward your legitimate email to another gmail address. Or forward all emails above a certain size to another email address.
Asking gmail for more space may help. I think it's just obnoxious whining though. Workaround your problems first. If you've got 2GB of email, there is something wrogn with how you're using gmail. And frankly, if gmail actually gives you more space so that you can abuse the service some more, there is something wrogn with that decision too. But it's their network, they can do with it whatever they want :-).
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