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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. Firefox? by ack154 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where'd the firefox story go? :(

  2. YEP! Slashdot, bait and grab! by hot_Karls_bad_cavern · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i saw it too. They also claim that Flash ads aren't being run too. Nice eh?

  3. What happenned to the Firefox article? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There was an article about Mozilla firefox 0.9 (Great browser, Internet Explorer users should upgrade imediatley). But then it disappered. What happened? Bug in Slashcode? Cease and desist?

    1. Re:What happenned to the Firefox article? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Perhaps it was a dupe?

    2. Re:What happenned to the Firefox article? by MonTemplar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What, you mean this one? Still up on the front page here.

      -MT.

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      -MT.
    3. Re:What happenned to the Firefox article? by Arkaic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No, not that one. There WAS one announcing the final release of Firefox 0.9 before Gmail story appreared, then it disappeared withing about a minute of me first seeing it.

  4. Mozilla 0.9 repost by JaffaKREE · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm pretty damn sure that for about 3 minutes, there were 2 "mozilla 0.9" stories within eyeshot of each other. Can you at least check THE FRONT PAGE before posting stories ? yeesh.

  5. i wanted to be the one who posted this story! by briankeith · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah that's right. me.

    1. Re:i wanted to be the one who posted this story! by kaos.geo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I submitted this story... Friday May 14, @11:15AM result ....Rejected I am not complaininggg!!! :) I am just happy of the outcome anyway, I was begining to suspect it was only a rumor.

  6. Mozilla firefox 0.9 Released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Get it now!. No, this isn't offtopic, Slashot pulled the article so I am using the comments here!

    If you are fed up of pop-ups, spyware, secrutiy exploits and spam, get it today! Over one million estimated users already. Even a joe user I talked to on the bus used it!

    Plus, if you prefered the old look you can get it here!

  7. University Email by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    This is a good call by Yahoo, perhaps Hotmail will follow suit as well. Luckily my main email address is my school address.

    I go to USC, and they give us a pretty good deal with our email accounts, or at least they did. Right now I have a max mailbox size of 73MB. In my three years of attending school I only have about 50MB used, with about 1000 emails stored, both sent and received. Obviously I don't keep every email around, especially if it has an attachment, but this system has worked quite well.

    Beginning September 1, the school will automatically delete any message older than 180 days, but still have a max mailbox size of 73MB! You can read about this upcoming change here. I don't use these old emails every day, maybe 4 times a month, but it is nice to be able to access them from any computer that I use without storing them on my personal computer to avoid deletion. The school installed this web-based Sun iPlanet server last year, basically killing pine, so why should we not be able to access old emails using their web interface?

    I have tried to stop this from taking place by emailing our computer infrastructure group, they claim this is the doing of our VP. If the school gives us such a large mailbox, shouldn't it be up to the user to keep it under the limit without automatic deletion? Even if every student paid a dollar at the start of their school career, it would pay for this small amount of hard drive space, as well as multiple RAID and non-RAID backups. With these large free email accounts available (yahoo, google...) why is my school doing this? Do you have advice on how to approach the school to stop this policy, and what is your school's policy on email limits (amount, size, automatic deletion)?

    Maybe I should make this into an ask /.

    Thanks