Yahoo has upgraded mailboxes to 100 MB

nice move to compete with Gmail + others

[amznVibe]

Many active Yahoo mail accounts will find their capacities upgraded to 100 megabytes today!

[amznVibe]

(per charter this is NOT quoted from email, just their splash page)

Great news – Yahoo! Mail is new and improved!
Thanks for being a loyal Yahoo! Mail user.
To ensure that Yahoo! Mail continues to be the easiest, most enjoyable way for you to stay in touch, we've made several great improvements to your service! In addition to all the features you currently enjoy, we've made these upgrades:

Streamlined interface - Makes using your mail even easier

100MB of email storage - Keep more of the things that are important to you – without worrying about bumping up against your storage limit.

Message size up to 10MB - Send monster-sized files – photos, presentations, whatever!

[eWhisper]

Also here:
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[mifi601]

and here:

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[amznVibe]

First link was to this thread, second link was talk about possibly doing it, this is for real and done.

NYtimes article [nytimes.com] (registration NOT required)

[sidyadav]

Yup. So now it's final, Google's the innovator and Yahoo!'s the copycat ;)

Sid

[Chndru]

Yahoo says its terms of service do not allow it to use the text of e-mail messages to select which ads to show users. But Yahoo's e-mail and other services do consider users' demographic and behavioral information, including ZIP codes and what Yahoo services they use, in choosing ads.

Now, where did those privacy folks go?

[cma410]

How can they afford it?
I remember when it was 1MB space!

[Marcia]

I don't use their free mail, SBC/Yahoo is my DLS provider so it's their ISP mail (which is incredibly good). Any advertising I see when logged on to any of the services is definitely female-oriented, like cosmetics type products.

It's expected that demographic data will be used for serving advertising, it's no suprise andy more than just loggin in to some sites automatically delivers the local weather.

Many active Yahoo mail accounts will find their capacities upgraded to 100 megabytes today!

That's more than ISP customers have been getting. It's been 10meg or 25meg if using one of the free included upgrade options.

[Hunter]

It's more about (them) feeling like they can't afford not too.

[dherman76]

Will Hotmail follow?

[oilman]

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