Yahoo! Mail

[{DSG}DarkRaven]

So I load up my mail this morning, and what do I see, but a message from Yahoo!, informing me that I now have a new interface and one hundred megabytes of storage. I'm quite enthusiastic, of course, since I've been stuck with only 6MB ever since the internet boom ended. Thank goodness for grandfather clauses.

Anyway, I'm wondering, how many of you use Yahoo! for your e-mail, primary, secondary or other? And though it's probably a no-brainer, do all of you have this new massive storage amount, or is it just for people who have been members for five years?

[deathbyhokie]

probably all of them do. it's their answer to gmail.

speaking of which, i have three beta gmail accounts i can give away to people. one of them is taken. does anyone here want the other two?

EDIT:never mind, got two takers

[Menokh]

I also noticed that this morning.
It's useful, sure, but I only use my Yahoo account to catch some spam and for a few mailing lists an Yahoo groups.
Of course this means I won't have to clean out my account any time soon, as I was dreading having to do.

[vegeta1215]

I use Yahoo as my primary email and the increase in storage has no effect on me. I never even filled more that 10% of my 6 megs that I had previously. Also, I'm not crazy about the new look/interface.

[Ich]

DBH: Sure, but you *can* also sell them for 10-20 bucks on Ebay.

I used to feel special because I had 6 MB instead of 4 MB that they were giving out until just recently.

[{DSG}DarkRaven]

Yeah, those extra 2mb were my claim to fame. I remember way back when they doubled our space in the height of the internet boom, and then when things went south, they let us keep it, but started giving new members only 4mb. They also started the "no account under 18" crap, which prevented me from ever getting a new address. Singing up for a family account was a load of crap. Probably because they didn't want to get in trouble for sensitive little kids getting viagra spam, however that would work.

I figured it was their answer to GMail, but I thought I'd ask. I'm actually a little excited about this, because my mail storage went from being 75% full to 5% full. Now I can store all kinds of crap there and practically never have to clean it out. No more deleting my Daily Dilberts every month. And I can send myself school projects easier, or high res pics, or heck, even video files. I basically got a paid Yahoo! account for free. This rocks. God bless Google for their delightful market pressure antics.

What I'm really excited about though, and this is only my theory, but I"m expecting, or at least hoping that something like this will happen to the free website market. Wouldn't it be nice to go from 10-20 mb to 100-200? I can't wait for that to happen.

[deathbyhokie]

I figured it was their answer to GMail, but I thought I'd ask. I'm actually a little excited about this, because my mail storage went from being 75% full to 5% full. Now I can store all kinds of crap there and practically never have to clean it out. No more deleting my Daily Dilberts every month. And I can send myself school projects easier, or high res pics, or heck, even video files. I basically got a paid Yahoo! account for free. This rocks. God bless Google for their delightful market pressure antics

i wouldn't bet on sending video files. for google at least, there's a cap on message size. i'm not sure what it is myself, but i know it's there. and i wonder if yahoo is including the search feature, as well as hotkeys(i'm assuming they won't be switching to text-only ads though)?

[{DSG}DarkRaven]

Yahoo's attachment size is 10mb. I obviously won't be sending massive files, but small, low quality snippets will be much easier now.

[SixTen]

I have two yahoo accounts. One for family or any official people who need it, and one for everyone else.

[AtmaWeapon]

Neat, I'm going to have to log into my accounts. Now my old (6yrs and aging) account won't be 125% full with 1700 spams when I check it. I wish I hadn't signed up for so much crap with it when I was young and ignorant. I still have two alternates that only get about 1 spam a month, though.

I, too, had the 6MB in my old account. I only noticed it when I saw my newer accounts had less space.

[ZeldaFan001]

I was going to post about this too, but you beat me to it!

I have also gotten 100MB of storage, and I've had Yahoo for a long time. I don't get many messages really, and I was careful as to what to allow companies to send to me. The more size doesn't matter to me, but I do like being able to send larger files.

[{DSG}DarkRaven]

I also noticed earlier, you can send up to five attachments now, rather than just three.

[VEL]

I let my Yahoo mail fill up awhile ago. It was pretty much just spam, and I got tired of deleting it, just to get more spam. Now it will take quite awhile to fill up again. I pretty much used it just when I needed to have an email to sign up for something.

[Starkist]

Yahoo used to be my primary address until they suspended free POP3 access. It is now my secondary, after my primary from my ISP. I have a tertiary address at Hotmail, plus a special rare one elsewhere. I have a spam dump too.