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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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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!

  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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?