Yahoo! Mail to offer unlimited storage capacity
As celebration for their 10-year anniversary, Yahoo! Mail will offer unlimited mail storage capacity starting on May 2007 as announced on Tuesday.
The free version of Yahoo! Mail (basic), which is used by majority of users, offers only 1GB of storage and limited features such as the limited 10MB attachments. You need to upgrade to Yahoo! Mail plus to get more features you want including a “virtually unlimited” 2GB mail storage capacity and larger attachments.
Yahoo! Mail used to be the “giant” in mail industry but when Google started Gmail, millions have converted to it as their primary e-mail provider. This was due to the larger storage capacity – 2GB – and several other great features.
As a Yahoo! Mail user, this may sound great (err, or not). This would mean that you will have more storage for spam messages (or you could say, a potential attractant for more spam) due to their inefficient e-mail spam filter. Other than that, I find this “upgrade” unnecessary. I think Yahoo! Mail should upgrade more of their spam filtering and virus scanning feature. Perhaps they should get an idea from the great features of Gmail. That would be more attractive to users.
I still am using my Yahoo! Mail account as a “registration” email for most unimportant Web services I use—I somehow call it my “spam” inbox. But, I don’t think I’d go back to using it as my primary inbox anytime soon since Google Apps for Your Domain still has a “virtually unlimited”, 2-Gibibyte cap, which is more than enough for my needs.
I am still on
aYahoo! Mail because I could say I am more used to it, somehow. I think I am used to receiving spam with my Yahoo! Mail account so I can still tolerate it. Haha. I have Gmail account though which I rarely use.I’ve been using Yahoo as my primary email account for the past few years but now, I’m slowly shifting to Gmail. And yeah, one of the main reasons is the spam filter.
Never fancied Yahoo Mail since I viewed my very first webpage years ago.
My first e-mail account was a Hotmail account. I still use it, but I love Gmail. The only reason I had a yahoo mail was because I needed an id for Yahoo chat messenger.
well, i read a topic about this somewhere. I doubt yahoo will be able to maintain that. won’t it slow their servers downs? daming magaaccess ng service nila.
I used both yahoo and gmail. my gmail is for personal use while my 2 yahoo accounts for spam and online service mails.
Exactly when in MAY it will be available to users..
This was what I have read in their blog:
I use yahoo only when I need it to sign in on yahoo Messenger
I happen to agree with others actually. I do not know why but most of the time yahoo mail takes ages to load plus the attachments always give me trouble.