Yahoo Once again Increases Email Space, and improves Spam Filters

[hdtvtechno]

Yahoo Once again Increases Email Space, and improves Spam Filters for its Free subscribers.


I heard it on my local news just now.

 

[Ceas2182]

I Love Yahoo. Awesome Site

 

[hdtvtechno]

I didn't yet see the increase yet, they didn't say when the increase will happen. hopefully soon.

 

[cclement]

Don't get me wrong, Yahoo is good, but I still think Google is much better, especially with g-mail.

 

[KyDave]

I think the spam filters at Yahoo are outstanding. I typically average 1200 to 1500 spams per month and rarely does anything make it to my inbox. I gave up on my hotmail account about a year a go because their spam filters were horrible.

 

[cclement]

I gave up on my hotmail account about a year a go because their spam filters were horrible.

You mean Hotmail had spam filters? It certainly didn't look like it!?!

 

[Stargazer]

How much did they increase the storage to?

 

[mike123abc]

Free accounts will go to 1GB, paid accounts (for things like pop access $19.95 a year I think) will go to 4GB.

 

[hdtvtechno]

Free accounts will go to 1GB, paid accounts (for things like pop access $19.95 a year I think) will go to 4GB.

are you sure, where did this say, or you saw this info posted ?

 

[LER]

Gotta love competition

 

[mike123abc]

are you sure, where did this say, or you saw this info posted ?

It is in the wsj, if you have a subscription you can read it here: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111159328328087600,00.html

Subscribers to the SBC Yahoo service will now have two gigabytes of storage for each of their 10 e-mail sub-accounts, in addition to the two gigabytes of storage the companies granted to each of the main accounts last year.

The upgrade, which the companies says gives sub-accounts 20 times more storage than was previously available, brings total e-mail storage levels for Yahoo SBC customer accounts to 22 gigabytes

A free link is here, but it does not describe what happens for the paid yahoo dsl accounts:

http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews/2005/03/23/0323autofacescan07.html?partner=yahoo&referrer=

 

[hdtvtechno]

cool next month

 

[korsjs]

So you have to be an SBC customer?

 

[hdtvtechno]

SBC Yahoo will recieve upgrades, to 2GB

Beginning in early May, SBC Yahoo! customers will have 2 gigabytes (GB) of storage for each of their 10 available email sub-accounts,

http://www.sbc.com/gen/press-room?pid=5097&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=21625

edit: sorry, im too lazy today, i see that the info was allready posted above

 

[hdtvtechno]

Presto chango .

Loged in yahoo email, and bum there it is, 1GB storage
awsome

 

[Stargazer]

Sounds good that it is going 1 GB. That would be equal to google.

 

[LER]

Sounds good that it is going 1 GB. That would be equal to google.

Nope. GMail is at 2.1G:
You are currently using 0 MB (0%) of your 2138 MB.

 

[Stargazer]

Cool, I heard about GMail getting more space.

 

[cdru]

Cool, I heard about GMail getting more space.

GMail actually is perpetually increasing it's size limit. Gmail.com has a counter that shows the current allotment. I'm not sure how tightly it corresponds to the actual limit as it's just a javascript "counter", but the couple times I've checked it they corresponded to each other with rounding.

If any of the 3 people who don't have an account want one, I have a bunch of invites, PM me.

 

[Stargazer]

How are they able to increase the storage? Are they just compressing it more and more over time or just aquiring more hard drive space in their servers and show the result of how much space we have left allotted to each of us?