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What's the inbox size of the free web based email use use, if any? Yahoo is now offering unlimited email, but do you care? Have you ever exceeded your email limit?
alifornia-based Yahoo Inc., which already provides the world’s largest e-mail service, is to replace its existing ‘1GB per account’ ceiling with an unlimited sizing in direct response to significantly swollen storage and transfer demands brought to bear by users sharing greater amounts of imagery, music, and video media through e-mail channels.
Effectively, Yahoo’s decision to scrap its e-mail storage cap will remove the need for users to ever clean up their mail archives, something none of us are fond of doing at the best of times. “We are giving them [Yahoo e-mail account holders] no reason to ever have to delete old e-mails,” commented Yahoo co-founder David Filo via a phone interview with Reuters. “You can keep stuff forever.”
Yahoo’s move to open its e-mail accounts to unlimited storage is also likely to be a reflection of downward spiralling storage costs that have shrunk vastly in the ten years since Yahoo first entered the email space. More pointedly, modern personal computers are able to hold as much as a solid 1TB (a trillion bytes) of data, while owners of the 80GB model of Apple Inc.’s iconic iPod digital media player are able to boast as much as 100 hours of stored video playback.
The lifting of Yahoo’s account sizing is expected to start in May of this year, and the changeover should take around a month, says the company.
“We have been closely monitoring average usage. We are comfortable that our users are far under 1 gig(abyte), on average,” said John Kremer, VP of Yahoo Mail, before outlining that, “What we see are an increasing number of rich media files as consumers send more photos.”
Despite the freedom of use that the limitless accounts will doubtless provide for those signed up to Yahoo Mail, it does not come without conditions, and not everyone will be able to enjoy the privilege. Yahoo has warned that mail accounts must only be used for personal reasons, and all will be subject to guidelines designed to avoid abuse – mainly through individuals attempting to evolve a business practice by giving away unlimited storage space to other Yahoo members.
Also, China and Japan will not be included in the restructuring. “We will continue working with these markets on their storage plans,” added Kremer in a statement.
By comparison, Microsoft’s Hotmail e-mail service offers up 2GB of storage, and Google’s Gmail offers up 2.8GB. It remains to be seen whether the obvious advantages of signing up to an unlimited Yahoo Mail account sees a migration of users or prompts a wave of similar changes throughout other e-mail providers.
itWire wrote:
But you might be surprised to discover that Yahoo! are not the first to offer unlimited storage for email – that honor apparently goes to Rediff.com who launched a similar service earlier this year, while Google has spoken about an ‘infinity + 1’ service along with a GDrive that would store all your data.
Despite Rediff.com offering unlimited storage before Yahoo!, the reality is that most people will not know this, and Yahoo! will be remembered as the company that brought unlimited and email into the same sentence – interestingly only a few days before April 1 2007, when Google might have been expected to do something interesting with Gmail, and could well still be planning something. If that’s the case, Yahoo! clearly wanted to gain the upper hand, and given the massive worldwide free publicity this is bringing them, Yahoo! have succeeded in generating lots of attention – whether Google is doing anything spectacular with Gmail next week or not.
Personally I use Hotmail (or Windows Live Mail, whatever), because at the time it was the only free mail site I knew of. But when I heard there were others I just thought, "Well what's the point?"
It's not as if my e-mail inbox is ever going to actually get bigger than the cap anyway. That would require many, many email messages.
Yes, Rediff provides unlimited storage just like Yahoo, and you can even write and send your messages in different Indian dialects, if you like, maybe to impress your Indian colleagues and friends. Thanks for letting us know about it.
I've been a steady user of Hotmail, so far it's WYSIWYG, but enough for me to do more than enogh stuff, while my Yahoo! is more or less my "unoficial" online webmail system.
You mentioned WYSIWYG and look at the related acronyms I found.
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WYSIWIS
What You See Is What I See (used in context of distant multi-users applications, e.g. CSCW)
WYSIWYAF
What You See Is What You Asked For (in reference to programs such as those used for manual typesetting such as TeX or troff, that what is retrieved from the system is what the user specified - in essence, a statement of GIGO; sometimes also YAFIYGI: You Asked For It, You Got It)
WYSIAYG
What You See Is All You Get (used to point out that a style of "heading" that refers to a specification of "Helvetica 15 bold" provides more useful information than a style of "Helvetica 15 bold" every time a heading is used)
WYSIWYM
What You See Is What You Mean (You see what best conveys the message)
WYCIWYG
What You Cache is What You Get ("wyciwyg://" turns up occasionally in the address bar of Gecko-based Web browsers like Mozilla Firefox when the browser is retrieving cached information) -or - What You Create Is What You Get -or- What You Click Is What You Get)
WYGIWYG
What You Get Is What You Get (an alternative approach to document formatting using markup languages, e.g. HTML, to define content and trusting the layout software to make it pretty enough)
WYSYHYG
What You See You Hope You Get (/wɪzihɪg/) (a term ridiculing text mode word processing software; used in the Microsoft Windows Video Collection, a video distributed around 1991 on two VHS cassettes at promotional events).
WYSIWYN
What You See Is What You Need (used in context of a code centric user interface as an opposite to the WYSIWYG user interface, e.g. in reference to the HTML editor HomeSite)
WYSIWYP
What You See Is What You Print (wizzy-whip) (refers to the ability of a computer system to print colors exactly as they appear on a monitor. WYSIWYP printing requires a special program, called a color management system (CMS) to calibrate the monitor and printer).
WYSINWYG
What You See Is Not What You Get (a joke about how WYSIWYG editors don't always work)
WYFIWYG
What You Feel Is What You Get (refers to haptic real-time 3D modelling combining software and hardware)
WYSIWYS
What You See Is What You Sign is an important requirement for electronic signature software. It means that the software has to be able to show you the content without any hidden content before you sign it.
While I have Yahoo and Hotmail accounts I mainly use Gmail. Why? 1) It's fast. 2) There are no annoying banner ads -- just great text ads. 3) They give free POP access. 4) It has a great interface.
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