Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail

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)."

Comments

Re:not all accts upgraded yet?

[evil crash]

Only one of mine has been so far.

Re:How about instead...

[91degrees]

Oh,come on. How many people seriously expect their webmail to last more than a few months?

It's Simple Logic

[EconomicRat]

#include <iostream>

#define SUCCESS 0
#define FATAL_ERROR -1

using namespace std;

enum
{
Google = 1,
Yahoo,
SomethingWorseThanYahooIfPossible
};

int main (void)
{
int EmailService;

cout << "Select your preferred email service provider. (1 = Google, 2 = Yahoo, 3 = SomethingElse) >";
cin >> EmailService;

if (EmailService == Google)
{
cout << "You enjoy clean interfaces, non-evil marketing functionality, and lot's of storage space!" << endl;
return (SUCCESS);
}
else if ((EmailService == Yahoo) || (EmailService == SomethingWorseThanYahooIfPossible))
{
cout << "You enjoy cluttered interfaces, evil marketing functionality, and very little storage space!" << endl;
cout << "You're a moron!" << endl;
return (FATAL_ERROR);
}
else
{
cout << "Wow, you can't even follow simple instructions. You aren't worthy of the Gmail product." << endl;
cout << "Go away!" << endl;
return (FATAL_ERROR);
}
}

Re:100mb? WOW!

[TheGratefulNet]

and a full day later, and yahoo is STILL down.

and gmail still works.

isn't akamai supposed to be common to both? I guess google is just more connected and robust than yahoo.

another annoying thing about yahoo - VERY annoying (is there a work-around?) - is that it does NOT play well with forms managers in mozilla. it never stores the password and I always have to type it in when loggin into yahoo mail. all the other user/pass CGI boxes I encounter DO use stable variable names (I think that's the key) for user and pass. so the forms mgr knows how to respond to the page and the user only has to hit enter. very nice. but with yahoo, it requires more typing and work. if I'm ok with storing passwords on my browser (it runs on freebsd so I'm pretty safe against exploits that might try to take local files) then the web service (yahoo, in this case) should NOT fight with me and force me to type stuff that other sites don't.

again, bye-bye yahoo. and yahoo's spam filtering is horrible - they do seem to release usernames _somehow_ since some accounts that I created via yahoo but NEVER EVER EVER USED - still get spam. wonder why? I'll do the same with google and see if the account I create via them is ever spammed.

Re: Yahoo spam filtering

[jhunsake]

YOU ARE A DUMB FUCK