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Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail 707

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @08:54AM from the battle-of-bits-and-bytes dept.

coleslawjoe writes "This article at New York Times explains that Yahoo has decided to boost their E-mail space (Soul sucking registration required) from their current 4 megabytes to 100 in response to Gmail. They are also planning to offer 2 gig mailboxes for $19.99(USD)."

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100mb? WOW! (Score:4, Funny)

by Apage43 ( 708800 ) writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @08:57AM (#9428530) Homepage

Why ever would I want a whole gigabyte? I'll just go to yahoo and get one-hundred entire megabytes of wonderful inbox space, on a page riddled with graphical advertisements. This is so much better than a gigabyte of inbox space, on a page with text ads. I'll tell all my friends about Yahoo!'s new, awesome offer.

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But wait, there's more!!! (Score:3, Funny)

by jkabbe ( 631234 ) writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @09:01AM (#9428578)

I am really excited about their new DHTML-enabled interface. I just can't read mail without links that change colors when you hover over them!!!

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who'd have thought... (Score:4, Funny)

by professorhojo ( 686761 ) * writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @09:03AM (#9428603)

we could all get so gooey over webmail again? or is it just me... ? ;-)

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Re:How about instead... (Score:3, Funny)

by AviLazar ( 741826 ) writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @09:08AM (#9428646) Journal

until you forget the key?
It was an electronic key that was stored in his e-mail box. Unfortunately due to the expiration of his e-mail, the key was deleted and now he can't access any of his e-mails.

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Re:Effective Now (Score:2, Funny)

by kroekle ( 727040 ) writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @09:14AM (#9428699)

Except for the fact that when I email myself it puts my messages into the spam folder. I guess Yahoo believes that any mail coming from a Yahoo account IS spam. :)

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Re:How about instead... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @09:15AM (#9428709)

>> Particularly nice or significant email messages
> Never got one I wanted to keep yet.

i think this says it all, really.

I'm sorry to hear that; I really am.

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Re:aah, yahoo is /.'d! (Score:5, Funny)

by caluml ( 551744 ) writes: <slashdot@spamgoe ... minus herbivore> on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @09:20AM (#9428744) Homepage

Yeah - microsoft.com resolves, but not www.microsoft.com. Same with gmail.google.com, and www.google.com.
I imagine some people at Akamai are sweating a bit right now :)

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Re:How about instead... (Score:5, Funny)

by boaworm ( 180781 ) writes: <boaworm@gmail.com> on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @09:30AM (#9428830) Homepage Journal

I do deliberately keep my email, and it pisses me off no end when I get some sort of hard disk crash that causes me to lose old archived email.

Hey! someone found a problem to your solution just recently. Its called "Backup". A revolutionary new technology that allows you to make a copy of your data to a non-volotile memory "device", such as a tape or compact disk. The technology even supports you bringing the "device" offsite so it survives fires/burglaries etc
Amazing, huh ? :)

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The evils of capitalism (Score:5, Funny)

by santos_douglas ( 633335 ) writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @09:34AM (#9428874) Journal

and unbridled competition are once again evident as Yahoo has used its monopoly power to force an additional 96MB of space on us all!

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Re:Problems with upgrade (Score:5, Funny)

by rbb ( 18825 ) writes: <remco@r[ ]org ['c6.' in gap]> on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @09:39AM (#9428941) Homepage

You call not being able to send HTML mail a problem?

It's a new feature! ;-)

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Cool idea (Score:2, Funny)

by vijaya_chandra ( 618284 ) writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @09:44AM (#9429004)

Great idea!!

Being forced to have IE, mozilla and opera open at the same time with your 3 logins when you want to search for some thing would be ultra cool

Damn!! I am not a genius

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Re:100mb? WOW! (Score:3, Funny)

by AtariDatacenter ( 31657 ) writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @10:08AM (#9429259)

False positives on spam detection? What false positives? Clearly, they don't exist, because I never see them! ;)

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Just one problem... (Score:2, Funny)

by Black Jack Hyde ( 2374 ) writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @10:23AM (#9429439)

Yahoo's mail site appears to be slashdotted. Kind of hard to take advantage of all that storage space if you can't log in. Nice planning, Yahoo.

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Cool! More room for pics of naked chicks! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @10:40AM (#9429617)

For real. I use Yahoo mail for my fake online identity. The identity is for hooking up online with chicks for bondage, spanking, and other activities that, if publicly known, could wreak havoc in my career.
Of course, some of the chicks send me pictures of their tits and other privates. With a two meg limit, I generally had to download the pictures and store them encrypted on my computer at work. Now I have a little more wiggle room, so to speak.

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Re:not all accts upgraded yet? (Score:5, Funny)

by FatalTourist ( 633757 ) writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @10:45AM (#9429686) Homepage

Here's the trick. Sign out and then sign back in. Went from 6MB to 100MB in seconds!

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That's the spirit of slashdot for sure (Score:5, Funny)

by melted ( 227442 ) writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @12:41PM (#9431263) Homepage

Screw a company that provides you with world-class service for free. Now that would be fair, right?

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It must be me.... (Score:3, Funny)

by the_real_se7en_,' ( 741984 ) writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @02:18PM (#9432537)

Figures... Last night i had to clean out 2 of my 4 yahoo emails because they were both over 90% full. And if I would of waited till today I could of left them all there. Damned my luck to hell!

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Re:Problems with upgrade (Score:2, Funny)

by Blastercorps ( 762119 ) writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @02:31PM (#9432694)

For those that are overrun with spam, virii and anything else that can be embedded in an html this actually IS a feature.

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Re:And when it's full... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @03:46PM (#9433729)

So go download a thing called yahoopops (or whatever it's called, google is down right now or I'd link it).

Ah, I love the smell of irony in the morning...

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Re:100mb? WOW! (Score:2, Funny)

by davez0r ( 717539 ) writes: on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @04:31PM (#9434307)

a friend sent a gmail invite to my yahoo account and it got flagged as spam

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