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RichardKinser
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 Posted - 15 June 2004 : 03:37:39
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Yahoo Attempts to Counter Google's Gmail
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Beginning Tuesday, all of Yahoo's free e-mail accounts will be upgraded to 100 megabytes, a move spurred by Google's plans to offer 1,000 megabytes of free storage through its Gmail service, which has remained in a test phase since early April.
Yahoo has been offering 4 megabytes of free e-mail storage, although some people with accounts opened several years ago have 6 megabytes of free storage.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo disclosed that it would be increasing its free storage to 100 megabytes during an analyst meeting held last month, but hadn't provided a specific time for the upgrade until now.
The company hopes to appeal to e-mailers in other ways, too.
Angling for new users, Yahoo has decided to let people begin signing up for addresses that have been inactive for years. The offer is designed to lure Web surfers who may have been previously interested in signing up for a free Yahoo e-mail account only to learn one of their preferred handles had already been claimed.
"Some of these addresses could be very juicy and might attract a lot of interest," said David Ferris, an e-mail analyst in San Francisco.
Yahoo says "tens of millions" of dormant e-mail addresses will be made available again. The company also say it will improve the tools used to search its e-mails - a feature that Google has been touting - and spruce up the service with a cleaner look.
"This is a highly competitive marketplace and we have been listening to our customers so we can build the things that our users want," said Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's vice president of communications products.
Yahoo had been charging $49.99/year for 100mb of storage... |
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Davio
Development Team Member
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Posted - 15 June 2004 : 04:06:01
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Intresting. I have a yahoo account, but I barely use 10% of my 4mb. I also have a gmail account and I can't even pass 1%.
I will never be able to use up 5% of those spaces unless I keep every single email I get for at least a year.
And more than likely, a lot of other users won't be able to use up the space. So they use it to attract users knowing they will never use it up. And we are all taken up by more space.
Ah well, let the competition roll on. At least we are benifiting.  |
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
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Posted - 15 June 2004 : 04:06:32
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| Richard, what's the point of your link in the post, may I ask? |
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
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Posted - 15 June 2004 : 04:19:47
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 15 June 2004 : 08:27:49
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I have/had a 6 mb account. I guess that makes me a yahoo mail fossil.
Davio's right tho. Never have managed to fill up my 6 mb storage allotment. Then again, I always had accounts at school and work as well as with yahoo. |
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sr_erick
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USA
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Posted - 15 June 2004 : 10:56:46
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| Wow yahoo does it. I heard about it a few weeks ago. Now I'm using only 3% of my 100 mb limit. Nice...For $20 a year you can get no ads and two gb storage. |
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
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Posted - 15 June 2004 : 11:21:09
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| 3 of my accounts have been upgraded from 6mb to 100mb, still waiting on the 4th... |
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snaayk
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 15 June 2004 : 13:57:08
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| I use to use Yahoo all the time (6MB), but the firewall at work has precluded me from checking it. I know use ny own, that I purcahsed. |
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Jeepaholic
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USA
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redbrad0
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 17 June 2004 : 06:56:10
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| I think a lot of people will still jump ship simply becuase they want to try something new and different, whether they continue to use gmail or go back to yahoo who knows. |
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
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Posted - 17 June 2004 : 07:34:42
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| Why switch? Just use both. |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 17 June 2004 : 09:01:26
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| One good reason would be that you get a fresh start so to speak, your new gmail addr isn't out there in any spam lists. Of course for many people thats not a problem, but for many it probably is. You can always forward all your yahoo mail to your new gmail account and archive them, not like you don't have room for it ;) |
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
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Posted - 27 June 2004 : 07:50:24
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MyWay.com (which is very similar to Yahoo) is upgrading to 125mb from 6mb:
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Big news! Your My Way email account is getting bigger - MUCH BIGGER!
We'll soon be upgrading your current 6MB email account to allow up to 125MB of storage - FREE! That means enjoying your My Way Email experience more, and checking your storage quota less (or not at all!). Plus, we're increasing your email size limit to a whopping 10MB. This will give you the freedom to attach larger files, documents, whatever you want.
125MB of Storage Space!
10MB message size
100% FREE
Thank you for choosing My Way - there's never been a better time to be a My Way Email user!
- The My Way Email Team
Says it is "Coming in September" |
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redbrad0
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