Yahoo To Offer Unlimited E-mail Storage

[Doli]

Here's what someone at AOL had to say.

My main email account is Yahoo but i will say that AOL's free web account is really nice and clean.

I miss free Yahoo's POP3, damn everyone outside the US who has it, damn you all :p

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

whats next? they'll pay me monthly to be a member?

[obsolete_power]

Yahoo missed the boat, now they decide that unlimited storage is the thing to do? Well I am sorry Yahoo, that was like 2 years ago! Just crawl under a rock and depreciate...Nice move trying to buy Facebook though, I gotta hand it to them, they have guts, too bad they lack intelligence and market skills!

[I am Reid]

Yahoo missed the boat, now they decide that unlimited storage is the thing to do? Well I am sorry Yahoo, that was like 2 years ago! Just crawl under a rock and depreciate...Nice move trying to buy Facebook though, I gotta hand it to them, they have guts, too bad they lack intelligence and market skills!

Im pretty sure yahoo is the biggest email supplier. I dont see why you, or anyone else would get mad if they have unlimitted storage. How does that hurt you? You are acting as if doing this somehow make the service crappy. Yahoo isnt crawling underneath any rock, they are the rock.

[Murali Kavitarkika]

incidently the first such services are active and running successfully in india. And is called http://www.rediffmail.com and it seems to me that http://mail.yahoo.com is just copying the path of a successful enterprise.

I have written one such silly topic in my last post. If you have extra bandwidth to waste please visit...

http://ayub.blogspot.com/2007/03/storage-problems.html

-Ayub

Dear Sir

When Yahoo started giving 100MB storage space, there were some who could not get 100MB storage. There was trick for changing from 6MB to 100MB:

QUOTE:

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1. Login to your Yahoo! Mail account

2. If you see only 6MB, go to Mail Options

3. Select Account Information from the left of the screen

4. You'll be asked for your password again. Enter it.

5. You will see the Membership Information page

6. Copy the url of this page into notepad

7. Compare your url with this url:

http://edit.yahoo.com/config/set_intl?.chi...umb=***********

8. Copy your scrumb code (this should be the last 11 characters of your url) from your url and place it in the two places of my url where the *********** is. Copy this url (which has your scrumb code) back into your browser.

9. Change your settings to English - US

10. Accept the New User Agreement

11. You will be logged out

12. Go to mail.yahoo.com and relogin

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Is there any trick similar to the above for getting unlimited storage?

Could you please leet me know

Thanks

Murali Kavitarkika

[email protected]

[Tokar]

To me, I think that this Unlimited email storage is stupid.

I rather have bigger file attachments.

It is stupid, I agree. It is all just a marketing ploy, a gimmick.

Would you rather join GMail at 2.8GB? Microsoft at 2GB? Or would you rather join Yahoo! who is offering unlimited storage?

I better join Yahoo! because what will happen when I need to store 3GB?

The answer is: you will never store 3GB of mail.

I just cleaned up 5 years of mail that I had been storing in MS Outlook Express. It was no larger than 500MB.

5 years...500MB. Mathematics would say that I wouldn't use 2GB until around 2022, and 2.8GB until around 2030. And if you look at Inbox.com which gives you 5GB, I wouldnt fill that until 2052. That is assuming the given rate, which is way higher than I ever would spend as the majority of that 500MB was sending and receiving school documents as attachments. Now that Im out of school, how often am I going to be sending attachments considering that my place of business handles everything through their website, including uploads? Not very often...

It is all a gimmick to get people who actually care about those numbers to sign up.

They only info I look at is:

Yahoo! - no free POP3, 10MB attachment size (free)

GMail - free POP3, 20MB attachment size

Inbox.com - free POP3, 20MB attachment size

AOL/AIM - free POP3, 16MB attachment size

Hotmail - no POP3, 10MB attachment size

Lycos - no free POP3, unlimited attachment size

Edited June 3, 2007 by Tokar

[jwjw1]

who in the world could fill up their mailbox before anyway? Oh, well, yea!!! (Y) go yahoo :punk: You da bomb!!! :D (NOT!) Gmail Rocks!

maybe thats why China is excluded....LOL

[shthead]

The answer is: you will never store 3GB of mail.

So because you will never need to store 3gb other people won't? Some of us archive the mail for business purposes, and a lot of my mail has attachments. If YOU don't need 3gb of storage it doesn't mean other people don't.

[Smigit]

good news.

As for file attachment increases I'd like that as much as the next person but the reason they can offer these file restrictions in the GB region is the exact reason why attachment sizes are so low. Really they dont want you or expect users to use 5% of this storage and can ensure that by limiting the attachment size. As soon as they bump that up too much their ability to give you this much storage quickly becomes an expensive proposition due to the fact users will now very easily be able to actually make use of the space.

Some day attachment sizes will go up but It'll require HD space/price ratios to drop quite a bit further IMHO.

[Crazysah]

I think by end of next year attachments sizes will go up drastically.

[Rappy Veteran]

I think by end of next year attachments sizes will go up drastically.

Yeah I agree now Google have started it...its gonna be done on Hotmail and Yahoo next :D

[Crazysah]

Yes yes. Hotmail may do 30MB. You never know.

[Toxicfume Veteran]

...

"We are giving them no reason to ever have to delete old e-mails," Yahoo co-founder David Filo said in a phone interview. "You can keep stuff forever."

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"People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives," said Filo, who remains active in managing technical operations at the Sunnyvale, California, company and carries the honorific title of Chief Yahoo.

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Repeating what google said a few years ago... :rolleyes:

[Tokar]

Repeating what google said a few years ago... :rolleyes:

No, they are repeating what I said 10 years ago when I got a 20GB hard drive learned how to use a desktop e-mail client like Outlook Express.

[ViperAFK]

I have had my gmail account maxed out for a while now. Been purging stuff each week. It will be great when google one ups yahoo like always.

Google's response, "Oh Yeah, we'll up our storage space too.... Infinity!!!"

[lsquare]

It is stupid, I agree. It is all just a marketing ploy, a gimmick.

Would you rather join GMail at 2.8GB? Microsoft at 2GB? Or would you rather join Yahoo! who is offering unlimited storage?

I better join Yahoo! because what will happen when I need to store 3GB?

The answer is: you will never store 3GB of mail.

I just cleaned up 5 years of mail that I had been storing in MS Outlook Express. It was no larger than 500MB.

5 years...500MB. Mathematics would say that I wouldn't use 2GB until around 2022, and 2.8GB until around 2030. And if you look at Inbox.com which gives you 5GB, I wouldnt fill that until 2052. That is assuming the given rate, which is way higher than I ever would spend as the majority of that 500MB was sending and receiving school documents as attachments. Now that Im out of school, how often am I going to be sending attachments considering that my place of business handles everything through their website, including uploads? Not very often...

It is all a gimmick to get people who actually care about those numbers to sign up.

They only info I look at is:

Yahoo! - no free POP3, 10MB attachment size (free)

GMail - free POP3, 20MB attachment size

Inbox.com - free POP3, 20MB attachment size

AOL/AIM - free POP3, 16MB attachment size

Hotmail - no POP3, 10MB attachment size

Lycos - no free POP3, unlimited attachment size

I agree! Most people won't even have more than 30MB of e-mails anyways sans attachments. I think what will set these e-mail providers apart is not how much space they give you, but how big the attachment sizes would be and whether they would include free pop3/SMTP usage.

[sundayx Veteran]

Actually my Yahoo! and Hotmail has free POP3. I think it may be continuation of my free services as I was an early user.

But I agree, nowadays the selling point of email services is NOT storage capacity, but rather, interface and speed. By that I have to vote Yahoo (beta) and Gmail as better performers.

[webeagle12]

So because you will never need to store 3gb other people won't? Some of us archive the mail for business purposes, and a lot of my mail has attachments. If YOU don't need 3gb of storage it doesn't mean other people don't.

i agree not everything is about you

I know a guy who used yahoo for e-mail purposes and damn he had lot **** there

[Smigit]

It is stupid, I agree. It is all just a marketing ploy, a gimmick.

Would you rather join GMail at 2.8GB? Microsoft at 2GB? Or would you rather join Yahoo! who is offering unlimited storage?

I better join Yahoo! because what will happen when I need to store 3GB?

The answer is: you will never store 3GB of mail.

*snip*

I totally agree and have ever since gmail arrived. However thats all assuming email does remain as text only format with the occasional html based email. I wouldnt be suprised if in the future audio/video based messages will be common place which will see us using drastically increased volumes of space. Of course they'd also need to allow us to send emails of greater size too but to accomodate.

[+Warwagon MVC]

to me 2 gigs of email storage is unlimited

[Rappy Veteran]

to me 2 gigs of email storage is unlimited

Yeah I will never use my 2gb but some people have used that and want more...thats how mad it gets :(

[Malisk]

I use 1% of my 2.8 GB. Sure, it can't hurt to have Yahoo increase the size like that, but man, there are so many other more useful things they could do with their service... Before some smartass goes "yeah, like what!?" ;), well, increased attachment size for one thing. Attachments are generally across mail providers still unevolved since years back, while the same can absolutely not be said about storage costs.

[LOC Veteran]

I have literally every email I've ever gotten stored on Gmail, and on that account I'm at 89% of the 2.8 gigs.

So yeah, 3 GB isn't what I would consider "unlimited" but it should be enough for most people. I mean, I'm talking emails from 1994 here, so close to 13 years of email :D Though alot of it the past couple of years naturally sometimes has a bigger file attachment, I'm not to worried about a 10 meg size or 20 or even 30. I just zip em and forget em.

Yahoo offering unlimited is great as well, I've uploaded all my email there as well (always good to have more than one back up no?) so yeahhhhh. Plus, I just like Yahoo's interface more now. I know everyone is like, well Google's is the "less is more" mentality, but really Yahoo's is just fine for me. Runs fast, looks great, and is very functional while offering some pretty nice features.

[ServerMechanic]

I have literally every email I've ever gotten stored on Gmail, and on that account I'm at 89% of the 2.8 gigs.

So yeah, 3 GB isn't what I would consider "unlimited" but it should be enough for most people. I mean, I'm talking emails from 1994 here, so close to 13 years of email :D Though alot of it the past couple of years naturally sometimes has a bigger file attachment, I'm not to worried about a 10 meg size or 20 or even 30. I just zip em and forget em.

Yahoo offering unlimited is great as well, I've uploaded all my email there as well (always good to have more than one back up no?) so yeahhhhh. Plus, I just like Yahoo's interface more now. I know everyone is like, well Google's is the "less is more" mentality, but really Yahoo's is just fine for me. Runs fast, looks great, and is very functional while offering some pretty nice features.

How did you get emails from 1994 up onto Gmail? Just wondering.

Thanks. :)

[Rappy Veteran]

How did you get emails from 1994 up onto Gmail? Just wondering.

Thanks. :)

He probably mass forwarded them or he zipped them and sent them to the inbox as a zip file... :unsure: