Yahoo To Offer Unlimited E-mail Storage

[Anusha]

Yahoo Inc. plans to offer unlimited e-mail storage to its roughly quarter of a billion users, starting in May, it said on Tuesday. The world's biggest e-mail service is scrapping its free e-mail storage limit of 1 gigabyte, or about a billion bytes of data, responding to explosive growth in attachment sizes as people share ever more photos, music and videos via e-mail. Microsoft has a 2 gigabyte free e-mail storage limit, while Google caps its Gmail service at 2.8 gigabytes. "We are giving them no reason to ever have to delete old e-mails," Yahoo co-founder David Filo said in a phone interview. "You can keep stuff forever."

Officials said the decision to remove e-mail storage limits reflects the plunging cost of storage as new personal computers store up to a trillion bytes of data and owners of 80-gigabyte iPods can carry 100 hours of video in their pockets. By contrast, when Yahoo first introduced its e-mail service a little under a decade ago, it capped individual storage at 4 megabytes per user. At that time, an "ultra high-density" floppy disk for personal computers then held 144 megabytes. "People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives," said Filo, who remains active in managing technical operations at the Sunnyvale, California, company and carries the honorific title of Chief Yahoo. Starting in May, the changeover to unlimited storage should take a month, said John Kremer, vice president of Yahoo Mail.

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[Nero]

wow ela ela thx 4 th info

[ashan_ok]

wow!maxxa ne...
thnx 4 d info bro!!!

[Tuffey]

wow....it's nice to know.........

Thanks Anusha for info..........:yes: :yes: :yes:

[fazaal24]

hmmm.....tahts a good move

[lasanka]

awesome info!
hotmail would have to consider responding to that move aswel...

[Anusha]

Wonder where they find all this storage space from :D

[Anusha]

awesome info!
hotmail would have to consider responding to that move aswel...
What about gmail? :D

[fazaal24]

Wonder where they find all this storage space from :D

may b from our own hd's:lol:

[amila325]

wow maraine ane manda man ath gmail thama asa

[Anusha]

may b from our own hd's:lol:
How the hell...? :D

[lasanka]

ya tru no idea abt that! the requirement will be... INCREDIBLE!

[Anusha]

wow maraine ane manda man ath gmail thama asa
Yeah man. Yahoo.com doesn't give pop3 :(

[lasanka]

may b from our own hd's:lol:
now why would u go and say somethin like dat?

[tckrockz]

wow ela nee

[prasadana2]

maru ne

[pasanlaksiri]

Sira but speed is the problem. I love my gmail account.

[Tissaka]

maxxa maxxa ;;;; ela;; thaks

[shanX]

Wonder where they find all this storage space from :D
Might be sm super-compression :D

[shanX]

Yeah man. Yahoo.com doesn't give pop3 :(
But can use forced POP3 ;)

I hav used... :yes:

[shanX]

Sira but speed is the problem. I love my gmail account.
AJAX ;)

[lasanka]

forced pop3 whats that!

[MCLINER]

but YAHOO sux
y GMAIL ppl cnt do dis ..................hehe ;)

[shanX]

forced pop3 whats that!
Google "Yahoo pops!"

[shanX]

but YAHOO sux
y GMAIL ppl cnt do dis ..................hehe ;)
Cnt do??? :lol: They introduced :D

[MCLINER]

Cnt do??? :lol: They introduced :D
unlimited STORAGE ???

[shanX]

unlimited STORAGE ???
Naah, the trend :D

Almost Unlimited ;)

[MCLINER]

Naah, the trend :D

Almost Unlimited ;)
hmmm

[Anusha]

Might be sm super-compression :D
KGB :D

[Anusha]

Google "Yahoo pops!"
But you can't do that will normal pop3 supported email clients ne?

[shanX]

KGB :D
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Aliya Ginger beer

[shanX]

But you can't do that will normal pop3 supported email clients ne?
Huh, aren't Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Firebird are normal pop3 supported email clients ??? :D :rolleyes:

[shanX]

Proud to introduce ;)

Yahoo Pops! - http://ypopsemail.com/ :cool:

YPOPs! is an application that provides POP3 access to Yahoo! Mail. It is available o­n the Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac platforms.

Yahoo! Mail disabled free access to its POP3 service o­n 24th April, 2002. This application emulates a POP3 server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, etc., to download email from Yahoo! accounts. We do not go against the license agreements of Yahoo! Mail. This application is completely legitimate and well within the realms of legal software.

How do we do it you ask? Well, this application is more like a gateway. It provides a POP3 server interface at o­ne end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo!

YPOPs! was inspired by a Perl script called FetchYahoo written by Ravi Ramkissoon.

[Anusha]

Huh, aren't Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Firebird are normal pop3 supported email clients ??? :D :rolleyes:
Oh ok. At first glance I thought this was a special email client program. This is like an intermediate guy. :D

[Hustle]

tnx 4 info

[shanX]

Oh ok. At first glance I thought this was a special email client program. This is like an intermediate guy. :D
Heh heh, yeah :D

Fetches for you, not POP3, it logs on, downloads, logouts, hav used it for 3-4 yrs ;)