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Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost
BobPaul writes "Following behind Yahoo Mail's recent upgrade to 100MB of free storage, and trailing behind GMail's 1GB (last mentioned here), ZDNet reports that Hotmail will soon boost email storage as well. 'The upgrade will increase Hotmail's free e-mail storage limits from 2 megabytes to 250MB and its paid e-mail service, which costs $19.95 a year, from 10MB to 2 gigabytes. The changes will begin in early July.' Another interesting tidbit from the article: 'Ask Jeeves also plans to grant its e-mail subscribers more storage room... According to an e-mail sent to iWon users, Ask Jeeves plans to give each of the sites' e-mail subscribers 125MB of free storage.'"
Not too sound like a 640kb ram snippet, but 1gb a storage will only be required when someone would like to send me a 1gb email.
Email, is communication. ~/docs is for storing 1gb of documents, text, important news, that you want to keep.
Online storage, and email quotas should not be confused, my mail account stays at near 0% as I delete remove and decide what to do on each piece of mail.
Asking for a 1gb mailbox is like building an extra house at the foot of your garden to store you postal mail in.
For UK'ers, it is like having a 1 mile long corridor leading to your front door that is jam packed with mail.
If we treated email more like snail mail, then we wouldn't be so damn faggoty about mail quotas.
I have got into the habbit of deleting as much mail as I possibly can, by making sure I reply when necessary, and I have the contact in my address book.
For business email usage, where customer emails should be kept, then you would obviously be using your own mailserver.
This mirrors the snail-mail world where letters and correspondence form customers get filed away safely.
Email allows us to be lazy, I realised I should delete mail when I never read a message more than once.
Do yourself a favour, if you want to reply to an email, hit reply, then save as draft, if you cannot be fecked, then delete the original. If there is some importnat snippet of info, use a real data management app, or a wiki, or whatever.
the best bit about yahoos move is the 10mb email attachement, which allows asynchronous file transfers between people, ie, parcel delivery.
So gaaaaaaaaaah bloooody idiots.
Unless that whole post was to say,look at me with my google beta account! I predict many bounces from email.com, as people say GEEmail, no not EEEmail, GEEmail. Gaaaaaaaaaah go read a book on perl, and leave the real world to those who have independant thought.