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Yahoo to Offer Unlimited Email Storage
Josh Fink writes to tell us that Yahoo has announced that they will be offering unlimited email storage starting this coming May. The launch is all a part of Yahoo's ten year anniversary. While not all users will see their storage caps disappear right away Yahoo is promising that this feature will eventually reach their entire population.
One of my yahoo addresses I have had for about 9 years. I just opened it up and looked:
Inbox - 7145 UNREAD messages (99% spam)
Bulk - 2547 UNREAD messages (about 99% spam)
Obviously, I don't use this account all that much. My point is that at least in my case, this extra storage will be just wasted.
I read this as a marketing move that really won't do a thing for me or many of the other users.
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
I had been using yahoo Mail since 1997. Yahoo had the best(well atleast to me) email service for years. Then they decided to go with flash based in-your-face ads. Then they came up with an desktop client look-alike which was bulky and pain in the neck. I am never going back to yahoo mail.
By sacrificing usability Yahoo! wanted to make a quick buck. Bad choice and unfortunately Yahoo! did not learn from hotmail. I am still amazed at how many people still use hotmail.
Where does this anniversary stuff come from? Yahoo's 10 year anniversary was TWO YEARS AGO. Maybe this is a 12 year anniversary feature!
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assholes.
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I wonder if this will fall under the "in our contract it doesn't legally say 'unlimited' " bit. I still get annoyed when I think back to the days of dialup when an ISP I used that advertised unlimited connection times sent me a nasty email because I stayed online for days at a time without disconnecting, saying that "unlimited doesn't mean unmetered"... as if that mattered to me... metering only is an issue when I pay for something according to the meter reading.
Anyway, I don't really see this as a huge boon. I don't even use 1% of either my gmail or my yahoo account. Are there really people who NEED 10gig+ mail storage?
ok, so how about this one? 1) Pirate a piece of data 2) Upload to yahoo mail account 3) Share the user id and pass with people you want to share. 4) ... 5) profit?
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If it really were "unlimited," they would probably attract more attention by saying "1 terabyte" or "10 terabytes" or "ONE MILLION terabytes." "Unlimited" just sounds less impressive than a huge limit.
And for all those complaining about the ads on Gmail, try the CustomizeGoogle plug-in for Firefox. It even gets rid of the counter on the Spam box.
Nothing like childish, wild-eyed stupidity to spark another .com bubble. It was brainlessly exhuberant promises with no tangible means to deliver that caused the crash in 2000, and apparently Yahoo has learned nothing.
Well, maybe they have -- they survived the first crash, and swallowed a whole bunch of smaller companies in the process. Companies that had smart, innovative ideas but not enough capital to sustain themselves through a bleak period. Could it be that this is what Yahoo! is hoping will happen again?
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I like the interface over the old one. But I find it to be much, much slower. My guess would be that there are numerous connections going on in the background.
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Whenever something says 'unlimited', don't you just want to know, "What really is the limit?"
Exactly. Like when I got my AmEx card and they said no limit (and still advertise as such on their commercials), I found that the limit was somewhere under $2000 because they wouldn't approve my charging a laptop on my AmEx. I eventually was able to raise my unlimited limit by faxing them a copy of my bank statement showing available funds in the bank.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
not to mention that 2833.40496GB is greater than 2833.40454GB so according the article, gmail's space decreases over time... good job proof reading...
Gee, I'm surprised that Rediffmail's
announcement of unlimited email storage didn't make Slashdot.
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There's only one way to find out! I set up an account but it might take a bit to hit the "Unlimited" status. However, it starts at 1GB so we might as well get started right away. Send mail to TheLimitAsSlash.Approaches@yahoo.com. Be sure to add attachments!
'Sucks' is in the eye of the beholder. Here are my favorite Yahoo! features that kill Gmail:
- one click to sort by sender, size, date, subject*
- I can open messages in tabs or new windows
Paid-for service removes on-screen and in-message ads. I'm sure some people see it as a shortcoming of Gmail that they *don't* give the option to pay money for no ads. $20/year? The service is good and I don't mind paying for extra features (more storage, more filters, no ads in outgoing messages, choice of return addresses.)
That said, I prefer Yahoo's old interface to the beta. I hope they never get rid of it. Then again, it's not like the structure of email will drastically change, so they should be able to keep the old interface alive forever.
* Seriously--am I blind, or is this most basic of all features missing? Am I the only one who does this?
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