Yahoo plans to offer unlimited e-mail storage to its roughly quarter of a billion users, starting in May.The world’s biggest e-mail service said Tuesday that it would scrap its free e-mail storage limit of one gigabyte, or about a billion bytes of data, responding to explosive growth in attachment sizes as people share ever more photos, music and videos via e-mail.
Officials said the decision to remove e-mail storage limits reflects the plunging cost of storage as new personal computers store up to a trillion bytes of data and owners of 80-gigabyte iPods can carry 100 hours of video in their pockets.
By contrast, when Yahoo first introduced its e-mail service a little under a decade ago, it capped individual storage at four megabytes per user. At that time, an “ultra high-density” floppy disk for personal computers then held 144 megabytes.
Infinity Rules!
>At that time, an “ultra high-density” floppy disk for personal
>computers then held 144 megabytes.
The only held 1.44 MB
LOL
The International Herald Tribune screws up a lot of stuff.
This works especially well because when you forget to login for a month or so they delete all of your email, everything gone. Now that’s awesome.
This is great news if you are a pack rat.
It seems as though is rife with the potential for abuse. There are already programs that allow you to use your Yahoo mail account as a virtual drive–They may find some way to prevent it, but can’t stop people using up gigabytes and gigabytes to store their movies, CD images, etc.
Now I know where to backup the whole internet….
all i want to see if free POP access…
I would prefer if they had offered POP access for free accounts instead. To me it’s more important than the extra space.
Currently, you need to pay $20/year if you want to be able to download your e-mail to a client application in your desktop.
This is a great step forward.
Naturally we should all abuse this feature as much as possible.
I propose everyone reading this blog should download the latest podcast of crankygeeks.com and e-mail it using yahoo to as many people as possible all at once.
That’ll teach Yahoo!!
I currently pay the $20 extra for the POP access. It would be completely ridiculous if they made this free, as you would not go to the web site and yahoo wouldn’t get the advertising revenue.
Remember: TINSTAAFL.
10 – Lou – Except that Gmail does give POP access to its free accounts. I use it all the time. And I find Google’s spam filtering is much more effective than Yahoo’s as well, though Yahoo has been getting better at that lately. Haven’t tried Hotmail in years and every once in awhile I wonder how they compare nowadays.
6 – Pete – That’s a great idea! I’ve just started the Whole Internet Backup to my Yahoo mailbox. It probably wouldn’t hurt if you started a redundant backup as well. We need to make sure all those tubes are preserved for future generations.
As shown above Yahoo will rue the day. What were they thinking? Gmail is already eating their lunch. Now they’ll be doing their wife!
As the new hard drive salesman representing all hard drive purchases by Yahoo, I’ve come to this conclusion:
Infinite hard drive sales * $0.000000001 per drive =
Infinite commision dollars
Now in a few years I can buy the Internet and back it up, too ! 🙂
#11
Hotmail is as clunky as ever.
Can you just imagine the carbon foot print. Don’t tell Al Gore.
[Off topic] Am I the only one who saw a post above this one a few hours ago about a Congressman reversing his opinion on marijuana? I wonder why it was pulled, haven’t seen anything in the NYT or elsewhere about it yet. Had 3 comments. Hey, what happened?
Hey! I have a fun idea!
Let’s open a Yahoo account and see how much mail we can get in there!
We can turn off all spam filters and post the address all over the web.
This might be a fun project for Dvorak Cage Match. We could even start an “office pool” on when the account hits its first gig, ten gigs, etc. etc.
Does Yahoo provide RSS? We might be able to track it that way.
>>>At that time, an “ultra high-density” floppy disk for personal
>computers then held 144 megabytes.
> The only held 1.44 MB
What a difference a teeny typo can make!
For example, the Whitehouse originally estimated that the Iraq war would cost $100 to $200 billion
Ooopsy Daisy! Teeny little goof.
It should have been $1000 to $2000 billion.
Web-based mail only (no POP3) is for kiddies and grandmas.
I dont give a flying f*** about yahoo’s offers.
I have entire yahoo.com domain in my spam filters for ‘almost a decade’ and it’ll stay there for infinity 😉
888
You block EVERYONE on Yahoo?
Are you a hermit?
We have been talking about Yahoo! a lot over at Highbrid Nation. You gotta admit they have really stepped up thier game against Google. As these big companies battle it out, it just means better products for us 🙂
yahoo = boring
this is just to compete with google’s leetness, and you know it
#23 yahoo = boring
Yeah, but that’s what I want in an email client. I use both Yahoo and GMail and I still think Yahoo has the edge.
In Web mail and home pages, Yahoo wins, IMHO.
However, Google beats Yahoo in a bunch of other ways. For starters, GMails free POP and forwarding service. Furthermore, their POP uses SSL encryption which is essential in this day-and-age.
Google’s adoption of the open iCalendar standard is very helpful and progressive.
While their “Documents and Spreadsheets” is a big rough around the edges, it gets them on the front of a train most people are going to jump on eventually.
I haven’t written Yahoo off but they’d better be aggressive if they don’t want Google to do to them, as MS Office did to Word Perfect.
— especially in the on-line “Office” thing. How hard could it be to add that feature?