Yahoo responds to Gmail

[mangled]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=77&e=1&u=/mc/20040514/tc_mc/yahootakesongooglewithextramailstorage

You have to pay to get the big storage (it says "virtually unlimited" but who knows what that means) but free accounts will get 100mb. I already use SBC Yahoo DSL so apparently, I'll get the unlimited storage anway with my account.

 

[Schadenfroh]

just spawn multiple spoof accounts and use yahoo pops to channel your mini 10mb accounts into your outlooks express

 

[mangled]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
just spawn multiple spoof accounts and use yahoo pops to channel your mini 10mb accounts into your outlooks express

Too much work involved.

Wonder what Hotmail will do?

 

[spanky]

cool. wonder what hotmail is gonna do.

 

[badluck]

great...now spammers can eat up 99mb's of my e-mail instead of 5

 

[RS3RS]

Thanks Yahoo, but I'll keep my gmail account. :roll:

 

[johnjbruin]

just use your own domain/email - unlimited space - unlimited name choices.

 

[Anubis]

you could just use spymac they have been giveing away free 1gb email accounts for a while now

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: johnjbruin
just use your own domain/email - unlimited space - unlimited name choices.

Yep and you get to choose which webmail app, SPAM filters, etc.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: spanky
cool. wonder what hotmail is gonna do.

Hotmail sux the bigone.


Sysadmin

mark.austin@gmaill.com

 

[TitanDiddly]

Hardcore. I was tired of having to check my old yahoo account weekly to clean out the spam so I don't overflow. ISP mail++

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: mangled

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
just spawn multiple spoof accounts and use yahoo pops to channel your mini 10mb accounts into your outlooks express

Too much work involved.

Wonder what Hotmail will do?

When was the last time that Microsoft reacted to market competition?
Look at all the advances Firefox/opera have over IE and still IE hasn't been changed, except for security holes. Hotmail sucks the same way, why would they change>

 

[rh71]

Sweet. I love competition. It's just too bad Yahoo isn't curtailing their spam like Hotmail has - without having to set filters or a bulk mail folder.

 

[ultimatebob]

Great... Just when I started changing from my @yahoo.com to my new @gmail.com account because I was running out of storage space! Geez, why couldn't they said something about this a week sooner!

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: badluck
great...now spammers can eat up 99mb's of my e-mail instead of 5

Yahoo doesn't count messages in your bulk mail folder towards your 6 MB storage limit. That's a good thing, too, because I probably get 60 spam messages a day in that folder.

 

[vladbot]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Great... Just when I started changing from my @yahoo.com to my new @gmail.com account because I was running out of storage space! Geez, why couldn't they said something about this a week sooner!

really? you can already change to gmai? how? I just checked the gmail web site, and I didn't see an option where you can create an account.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: rh71
Sweet. I love competition. It's just too bad Yahoo isn't curtailing their spam like Hotmail has - without having to set filters or a bulk mail folder.

Hmm... my mind just read 'hotspam' instead of 'hotmail'. Hmm...

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox

Originally posted by: rh71
Sweet. I love competition. It's just too bad Yahoo isn't curtailing their spam like Hotmail has - without having to set filters or a bulk mail folder.

Hmm... my mind just read 'hotspam' instead of 'hotmail'. Hmm...

What are you doing wrong ? I have no filters and no bulk mail folder settings and I only get 4 or 5 spam a day now compared to like 6 months ago when I got hundreds. They really did improve. When did you use them last and what have you done wrong ?

 

[Bassyhead]

it will be interesting to see microsoft's response to google's email as they are already gearing up for a search engine war

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: badluck
great...now spammers can eat up 99mb's of my e-mail instead of 5

no kidding. You know, if they had some sort of mail filter, I might be inclined to care about their email.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: spanky
cool. wonder what hotmail is gonna do.

Up their to 3 MB?

 

[dartworth]

free email sucks...


that is all

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: vladbot

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Great... Just when I started changing from my @yahoo.com to my new @gmail.com account because I was running out of storage space! Geez, why couldn't they said something about this a week sooner!

really? you can already change to gmai? how? I just checked the gmail web site, and I didn't see an option where you can create an account.

GMail is still in beta testing right now, so they're currently accepting new members by invitation only. We're able to invite a new member every week or two, though.

 

[vladbot]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob

Originally posted by: vladbot

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Great... Just when I started changing from my @yahoo.com to my new @gmail.com account because I was running out of storage space! Geez, why couldn't they said something about this a week sooner!

really? you can already change to gmai? how? I just checked the gmail web site, and I didn't see an option where you can create an account.

GMail is still in beta testing right now, so they're currently accepting new members by invitation only. We're able to invite a new member every week or two, though.

What type pf person dp you have to be, or what do you have to do to get invited??