yahoo and hotmail

[Cristatus]

has anyone ever realised that hotmail has always been stingy with it's email services.

hotmail counts every message as 1kb, whereas yahoo mail counts every messages (almost) exact bits, and therefore, even if they both did have the same amount of storage, you would be able to get more emails with yahoo mail.

also, for yahoo mail, the junk mail folder doesn't account for any space used, whereas hotmail counts every single piece of mail, whether it is junk mail or normal mail.


i have also wondered, how do they setup the storage for these free email accounts? do they have disk farms that run in to petabytes, or what?

 

[HappyPuppy]

gmail

 

[ingenuiti]

With 100mb and 250mb of storage respectvely, I think this issue is a moot point.

 

[aplefka]

Yeah they've both upgraded their free service to compete with the G-man. G-mail still pwns all though.

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: aplefka
Yeah they've both upgraded their free service to compete with the G-man. G-mail still pwns all though.

/me has a gmail account, but i still use the yahoo and hotmail accounts for different purposes.

 

[Abhi]

Originally posted by: ingenuiti
With 100mb and 250mb of storage respectvely, I think this issue is a moot point.

My hotmail is still 2 mb unfortunately...

 

[Freaknificent]

mine too... plus they disabled outlook to work with it unless i upgrade my hotmail account (19.95 a yr iirc)
bastages

 

[vegetation]

Got my hotmail upgraded to 250mb. No more out of space messages with the spam!

 

[NightCrawler]

Gmail with FREE pop, hotmail is stupid now.


PS: I have a few Gmail Invites left if anybody still does not have an account.

 

[EMPshockwave82]

Originally posted by: NightCrawler
Gmail with FREE pop, hotmail is stupid now.


PS: I have a few Gmail Invites left if anybody still does not have an account.

have 5 gmail invites left..


i have 2 hotmail, 1 yahoo, and 1 gmail.... gmail is best by far