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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. 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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  14. 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?

  15. 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!

  16. 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.