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article [story.news.yahoo.com]
Yahoo Inc. plans to give its paying e-mail customers 2 gigabytes of storage and boost the size limits on free accounts
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On free e-mail accounts, Yahoo is expanding storage to 100 megabytes from 4 megabytes and upping the message size limit to 10 megabytes from 3 megabytes.
But that aside, I thought this was a test and at the end of a year, the renew rate is the higher price. Sneaky way to bump you up to the next price level. Which is not much, but still.. how many people won't even notice?
In about the past month (with the free version), i've noticed a major increase of stupid stuff coming through now, like Cialis, Vi@gra, etc. - stuff that should be easily caught.
Other than storage space, is the paid version worth paying for?
Like some others have said, I also am having speed/timeout issues with the new interface. I don't know if it's because everyone is checking it out, or if Yahoo didn't thoroughly test the performance of all their new interface. Nor do I really care - My Yahoo mail has always been a junk e-mail repository to receive content from sites that require registration. Nothing more. I only log in before I register for something to wipe out all of the junk mail, then I stay logged in until I get whatever activation information that was sent. My mailbox has been "full" for years.
Still - it seems to be forwarding our emails fine, just the web based login that is hurting, at least in firefox.
This isn't free or public mail, it's SBC/Yahoo DSL Member email that can't be accessed; it keeps coming up with the screen for the new service.
>This isn't free or public mail, it's SBC/Yahoo DSL Member email that can't be accessed; it keeps coming up with the screen for the new service.
A few days back after years on dial up I took the plunge and got DSL through SBC/Yahoo. The first time I tried checking my Yahoo e-mail today I got an error message. The second time I was able to get into my ISP Yahoo e-mail. Looks like they have some bugs to work out. I was automagically given a free increase to 2GB because I have DSL through Yahoo.
Now, if I can just figure out how to get my router to work nice with that silly Speedstream DSL "modem" SBC sent me... :(
And a suggestion for you Marcia: Do you *really* want to be using Yahoo mail for important business mail? Perhaps you should find something a bit more reliable to handle business e-mail.
Lookout you packrats ..... Shane
And a suggestion for you Marcia: Do you *really* want to be using Yahoo mail for important business mail? Perhaps you should find something a bit more reliable to handle business e-mail.
[edit]removed bug report - tempting but it's not the place for it.[/edit]
[edited by: jcoronella at 7:40 pm (utc) on June 15, 2004]
i'll stay loyal... other than having to sign in about 5 times each time, i haven't had any problems... ;)
anyone else experience having to sign in multiple times?
I don't know about regular paid accounts, but if they're anything like the ISP mail it's definitely worth every penny. The interface is the best I've ever used, spam filtering is superb - maybe one out of a thousand will get through, if that much - and there has not been one virus yet.
For all those Yahoo'ers reading this, you also forgot to set the default outgoing for those of us not sending as our yahoo acct. My email has been going out under username@yahoo.com instead of my real email.
Thanks for the heads up, haven't tried yet today.
The only concern I've got, which is why I balked at migrating from Prodigy after the changeover, is about mail being filtered by recipients because of them going through with yahoo.com - which is understandable with free, but not ISP mail.
[edited by: Marcia at 7:44 pm (utc) on June 15, 2004]
If that is the same site I read, in the Midwest forum there it appears that Yahoo hosed every DSL customer's e-mail for a while.
That is actually a good analysis. While gmail will have more space, how many current Yahoo users need more than 100 MB? And how many new users would find 100 MB inadequate?
Not for me 100 MB for a free service is all I need for disposable and 'semi' anonymous email services.
They offer that I don't need to move anymore.
They could make a really cool and competitive move if they deleted that "Do you Yahoo?" footer on messages you send. Why do they need this? Isn't the yahoo.com domain on the return address of your email enough branding?
