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Yahoo to Offer Unlimited Email Storage

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the to-infinity-and-beyond dept.

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.

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  1. New business plan by Harmonious+Botch · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) Offer backup services for a modest fee 2) Mail them to my yahoo account 3) profit

    1. Re:New business plan by iadude1010 · · Score: 4, Funny

      cp internet* mylogin@yahoo.com backups are good

  2. Nice idea. by crazyjeremy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am offering unlimited free $1 bills to anyone who leaves intelligent replies to this comment. While I may not send yours to you right away I will try to send it eventually.

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    1. Re:Nice idea. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I beg to disagree with your assertion that you will send unlimited $1 bills to posters of intelligent comments. I move that the set of all existing dollar bills is countable, since it has a one-to-one correspondence with the algebraic group Z. Ergo, by modus ponens, you cannot have unlimited dollar bills. If you did, a simple reductio ad absurdum dictates that they'd have no value, and therefore I would not want them anyway.

    2. Re:Nice idea. by icepick72 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Unlimited $1 bills, or unlimited pennies, or unlimited $20 bills, or unlimited flecks of gold ... does it really matter if indeed it is unlimited?

    3. Re:Nice idea. by Dunbal · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you did, a simple reductio ad absurdum dictates that they'd have no value, and therefore I would not want them anyway.

            Bravo Sir, stated like a true Nerd!

            PSST: I'll have his!

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    4. Re:Nice idea. by Pollardito · · Score: 5, Funny

      You do realise that the rollout of the previous upgrades in mailbox size didn't all happen in one go as well, right?

      exactly! the previous rollouts came out overtime as they put into place the infrastructure to handle the new size, so i anticipate that they will also roll this one out as infinite space becomes available for more and more users

      does anyone know if there is any truth to the rumor that Google is going to save costs on storing gmail accounts by storing everyone's email in one huge Yahoo mail account?

    5. Re:Nice idea. by God'sDuck · · Score: 4, Funny

      Unlimited manure would probably be less desirable.
      Depends -- does it have to be sent to *my* address?
  3. Do I really need more Yahoo Space? by lecithin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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    1. Re:Do I really need more Yahoo Space? by flynt · · Score: 5, Funny

      Isn't it killing you that you have 71 legit messages in there?

  4. Too bad we've already got gmail by atomicthumbs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've tried Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Mail Beta. They were actually my first email accounts. Somebody sent me a gmail invite a few years ago and I've never looked back. The yahoo interface is AWFUL.

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    1. Re:Too bad we've already got gmail by jimjamjoh · · Score: 4, Informative

      Except that yours is a minority opinion: CNET and PC Magazine both gave glowing assessments.

      I use the new Y! Mail Beta too, and the reviews are right, it IS faster, and the "Web 2.0 cruft" that you disdain has markedly improved the usability of the interface (drag 'n drop messages into folders, yeah, who would want that?!).

  5. I'd like a couple ... by tekkguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd like a couple of those unlimited GB hard drives. You know, just in case I fill one of them up ... oh, wait. Nevermind.

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  6. Too Little Too Late by deadmongrel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  7. Maybe 12 year anniversary by carlivar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  8. unlimited by flynt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Whenever something says 'unlimited', don't you just want to know, "What really is the limit?"

    1. Re:unlimited by amazon10x · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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!

  9. there's always a price by Ginger+Unicorn · · Score: 4, Interesting
    i just had to switch to gmail today ,as yahoo decided to start charging £12 a year for POP access.


    assholes.

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  10. yahoo e-mail addresses, the new DMZ? by Coraon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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    1. Re:yahoo e-mail addresses, the new DMZ? by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If Bugmenot taught me one thing, is there is always the asshole who changes the password as soon as they log in.

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  11. Spammers by BrianPan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'll write the followup headline...

    Yahoo to Offer Unlimited Email Storage, Spammers Rejoice

    What, did they really think the users would be filling the extra space?

  12. Re:Fantastic! by nine-times · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kittie or Kiddie? Either way.... you sick bastard!

  13. I'll stick with Gmail thank you by Nonillion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, but I think my current Gmail's 2833 MB of storage ought to be enough for anyone.

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  14. YahooFS may replace SlashdoFS by goombah99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The problem with GoogleFS was that it was a lot of work for relatively little, slow storage. Thus it's main utility -- offsite backups--was of little value. Now with unlimited E-mail storage the value of it for offsite backups is realizable. So would someone please create YahooFS so that I can mount my yahooMail-based file system on my desktop and drag my files across?

    Up until now I have been using my own hand rolled SlashdotFS. It works by encoding data into comments. It uses a Markov chain sentence generator to encode data in english looking sentences then writes them as comments in slashdot. I use a redudancy system to prevent data loss if comments are deleted. The other problem is that because the system is write-only, it's means lots of bandwidth for files I change frequently. Even so it works. But the results has been that I feel kinda guilty about all the gibberish comments I insert into slashdot. The good news is that because of the english markov sentence generator, no one can actually tell that it's data so they just think it's some person they need to begin flaming immediately.

    In the last version of the program I actually made the post somwhat on-topic by retraining the markov genewrator based on the word field distribution of the thread itself. Slightly slower, but then it looks like a conversation.

    I'd feel a lot less guilty if I could use YahooFS instead.

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    1. Re:YahooFS may replace SlashdoFS by goombah99 · · Score: 5, Funny

      By the way, the above post was just an encoded version of my secret egg salad recipe.

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    2. Re:YahooFS may replace SlashdoFS by Sporkinum · · Score: 4, Funny

      Saracen pig! Spartan dog! Take this! And this! Roman cow! Russian snake! Spanish fly!

      +1 for a What's up Tiger Lily reference!

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    3. Re:YahooFS may replace SlashdoFS by jzeejunk · · Score: 5, Funny

      I use a redudancy(sic) system to prevent data loss if comments are deleted.

      with all the dupes i'm sure redundancy is not that much of a concern.

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    4. Re:YahooFS may replace SlashdoFS by rez_rat · · Score: 4, Funny

      The funny thing is... most those comments were modded "Insightful"!!!

      S-

  15. Re:Fantastic! by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kittie or Kiddie? Either way.... you sick bastard!

          I can't help it! I just can't get enough of that pussy...

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