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Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the battle-of-bits-and-bytes dept.

coleslawjoe writes "This article at New York Times explains that Yahoo has decided to boost their E-mail space (Soul sucking registration required) from their current 4 megabytes to 100 in response to Gmail. They are also planning to offer 2 gig mailboxes for $19.99(USD)."

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  1. 100mb? WOW! by Apage43 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why ever would I want a whole gigabyte? I'll just go to yahoo and get one-hundred entire megabytes of wonderful inbox space, on a page riddled with graphical advertisements. This is so much better than a gigabyte of inbox space, on a page with text ads. I'll tell all my friends about Yahoo!'s new, awesome offer.

    1. Re:100mb? WOW! by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 2, Funny

      False positives on spam detection? What false positives? Clearly, they don't exist, because I never see them! ;)

    2. Re:100mb? WOW! by davez0r · · Score: 2, Funny

      a friend sent a gmail invite to my yahoo account and it got flagged as spam

  2. But wait, there's more!!! by jkabbe · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am really excited about their new DHTML-enabled interface. I just can't read mail without links that change colors when you hover over them!!!

  3. who'd have thought... by professorhojo · · Score: 3, Funny

    we could all get so gooey over webmail again? or is it just me... ? ;-)

  4. Re:How about instead... by AviLazar · · Score: 2, Funny

    until you forget the key?
    It was an electronic key that was stored in his e-mail box. Unfortunately due to the expiration of his e-mail, the key was deleted and now he can't access any of his e-mails.

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  5. Re:Effective Now by kroekle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Except for the fact that when I email myself it puts my messages into the spam folder. I guess Yahoo believes that any mail coming from a Yahoo account IS spam. :)

  6. Re:How about instead... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    >> Particularly nice or significant email messages
    > Never got one I wanted to keep yet.

    i think this says it all, really.

    I'm sorry to hear that; I really am.

  7. Re:aah, yahoo is /.'d! by caluml · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah - microsoft.com resolves, but not www.microsoft.com. Same with gmail.google.com, and www.google.com.
    I imagine some people at Akamai are sweating a bit right now :)

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  8. Re:How about instead... by boaworm · · Score: 4, Funny


    I do deliberately keep my email, and it pisses me off no end when I get some sort of hard disk crash that causes me to lose old archived email.

    Hey! someone found a problem to your solution just recently. Its called "Backup". A revolutionary new technology that allows you to make a copy of your data to a non-volotile memory "device", such as a tape or compact disk. The technology even supports you bringing the "device" offsite so it survives fires/burglaries etc
    Amazing, huh ? :)

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  9. The evils of capitalism by santos_douglas · · Score: 5, Funny

    and unbridled competition are once again evident as Yahoo has used its monopoly power to force an additional 96MB of space on us all!

  10. Re:Problems with upgrade by rbb · · Score: 4, Funny

    You call not being able to send HTML mail a problem?

    It's a new feature! ;-)

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  11. Cool idea by vijaya_chandra · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great idea!!

    Being forced to have IE, mozilla and opera open at the same time with your 3 logins when you want to search for some thing would be ultra cool

    Damn!! I am not a genius

  12. Just one problem... by Black+Jack+Hyde · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yahoo's mail site appears to be slashdotted. Kind of hard to take advantage of all that storage space if you can't log in. Nice planning, Yahoo.

  13. Cool! More room for pics of naked chicks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    For real. I use Yahoo mail for my fake online identity. The identity is for hooking up online with chicks for bondage, spanking, and other activities that, if publicly known, could wreak havoc in my career.

    Of course, some of the chicks send me pictures of their tits and other privates. With a two meg limit, I generally had to download the pictures and store them encrypted on my computer at work. Now I have a little more wiggle room, so to speak.

  14. Re:not all accts upgraded yet? by FatalTourist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here's the trick. Sign out and then sign back in. Went from 6MB to 100MB in seconds!

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  15. That's the spirit of slashdot for sure by melted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Screw a company that provides you with world-class service for free. Now that would be fair, right?

  16. It must be me.... by the_real_se7en_,' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Figures... Last night i had to clean out 2 of my 4 yahoo emails because they were both over 90% full. And if I would of waited till today I could of left them all there. Damned my luck to hell!

  17. Re:Problems with upgrade by Blastercorps · · Score: 2, Funny

    For those that are overrun with spam, virii and anything else that can be embedded in an html this actually IS a feature.

  18. Re:And when it's full... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So go download a thing called yahoopops (or whatever it's called, google is down right now or I'd link it).

    Ah, I love the smell of irony in the morning...