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Yahoo Boosts E-Mail Storage to 1GB

By Nate Mook, BetaNews

March 23, 2005, 9:41 AM

Starting late next month, Yahoo will increase the storage space given to its free Web mail users to 1GB. The move puts Yahoo's e-mail offering on par with Google's Gmail, and comes as rumors speculate that Gmail will leave its beta confines and open up to the public on April 1.

Google began offering 1GB of e-mail storage since the launch of Gmail last year, but the service has remained in limited testing. Nonetheless, Gmail's announcement caused both Yahoo and MSN to respond by offering 250MB for free e-mail accounts. Yahoo says it will take up to two weeks for all users to see the 1GB boost.

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By snoopy3216

posted Mar 23, 2005 - 7:50 PM

some say to little to late, i say welcome it, everybody has there own choice, but i would like to see increased attachment sizes as well as 1g storage, now that will make all the others increase there attachment size as well as bring more costumers to yahoo once more

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By	posted Mar 23, 2005 - 6:57 PM

My primary email account is Gmail. I'm not going to switch over to Yahoo (currently my spam bucket) just because they offer one of the advantages that Gmail has. And, as previously stated, it doesn't have pop3 access, which would be a pain if it were my primary email account.

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By zridling

posted Mar 23, 2005 - 6:42 PM

Erasing GMail's advantage is a good thing. I just wish others would follow suit. Now I can get a Yahoo account to accept the spam from my GMail account — ha!

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By amjose

edited Mar 23, 2005 - 12:21 PM

I still don't understand why encrypted login is still not the default with Yahoo. I need to visit an extra page each time I login to login securely. Also, why isn't the session encrypted like Gmail offers? I frequently use hotspots and I would like at least the comfort of knowing others are getting my email this easily.

If Yahoo did offer this, then I would probably switch back.

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By mjm01010101

posted Mar 23, 2005 - 4:03 PM

Solution: Keep whining!
Alternate Solution: Stop whining!

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By buddha_tree

posted Mar 23, 2005 - 11:04 AM

1gb is nice, but Yahoo doesn't offer pop3 like gmail does.

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By Kamika007z

posted Mar 23, 2005 - 11:14 AM

yeah, but will Google remove pop3 support and require people to pay for it after it's out of beta?

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By Pipewrench

posted Mar 23, 2005 - 10:27 AM

I just paid $20 a month ago so I could get 2GB of Storage and no ads. Oh well, when Gmail comes out of Beta I'll just use Google instead. I just wish Gmail had a calendar.

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By spiffyjeff

posted Mar 24, 2005 - 4:32 PM

you want a calendar? just use gmail, set-up thunderbird to access gmail, and intall the calendar extension "SunBird" from here: http://www.mozilla.org/p...s/calendar/sunbird.html

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By alekc

posted Mar 23, 2005 - 11:47 AM

Well it's beta, yes; but if you go at http://isnoop.net/gmail/ for example you can get gmail invite :P So it's beta status = marketing thing imho

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By bourgeoisdude

posted Mar 23, 2005 - 11:02 AM

Same thing happened to me when they expanded from 2MB to 25MB--er was it 5MB to 25MB? Anyway I think they make announcements like that at strategic times on purpose.

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By MOTVG

edited Mar 23, 2005 - 12:22 PM

I think they started with 6MB (that's when I first started using their email anyway), cut it down to 4MB (for new users), jumped up to 100MB, then up to the current 250MB.

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By AlanRivaldo

posted Mar 23, 2005 - 8:49 PM

Yes, I believe that your recollection is correct.

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By geekymom

posted Apr 2, 2005 - 2:22 AM

About a year ago, (before I got my Gmail invite) I too bought the 20$ ad-free account. I figured I didn't need it much anymore, and cancelled it shortly before my 1 year renewal (bout 2 mos shy) and Yahoo credited me 5$. If you cancel, you might get credited a majority of your 20$ too.