Can't say I'm that excited. I've been using Yahoo since 2003 and still have only sued 6% of the 1 gig. My Gmail only has 55 Megs used up.

Reply

That's a little biased to say the least.

Nice to see you forgot to mention that they only introduced 1GB because of Gmail, and that they were pushing their paid services and cutting everyone down to what? 10MB?

The "unlimited" storage is just an attempt to undercut Gmail without actually bothering to innovate.

And let's not forget that Yahoo is still more evil than even Microsoft.

Reply

It is very much possible to go over 100% with Gmail. It just keeps on counting, 102%, 103%...

Reply

You're about five days early, Chris...

Reply

Chris ... your a yahoo fan boy. I dont like you and I hope you die soon

Reply

For one, #2 alf is totally right, plus yahoo, like gmail is banking on the law of averages, once you get to that high of numbers no thing changes quickly.

Plus, let me know when you run out of space on gmail, which supports more features and I believe is better all around, which is up to close to 3 gig i believe, sorry 2.8 gig. I don't see anyone but the most ridiculous of email users running out of space on gmail. I'm only using just under a gig, and I've got a decent number of large attachments and I get at least a dozen emails a day.

I say big whoop, Yahoo is just trying to compete with Google by offering unlimited storage. So now they can just say "hey, Google has a limit (in a little sarcastic girl voice) come and use our email" does yahoo even have pop3 access? and do they cap their uploads?

Reply

This reminds me of those "UNLIMITED!" webservers out there for $3 a month. "Unlimited!" my left foot. Lets see a gmail-drive like application for yahoo and see where the limit is.

Reply

A little competition never hurt anyone, right?

Reply

I'm with spencer.r -- were it truly UNLIMITED people would start trying to backup their porn collections to their email accounts. I wonder how they'll keep that from happening?

Also -- I'll definitely stay with Gmail, simply because Gmail's "the user owns the data" policy is much better than Yahoo's "let's lock the user in".

Reply

I really do not like this blogger at all

Reply

While I definitely congratulate Yahoo on leading the charge here, I'll personally be sticking with my $US50 Google Apps Premium 10GB mailbox -- I'd rather pay a little bit than have to put up with the really intrusive ads Yahoo sticks in the mail interface.

Plus, I've come to rather like Gmail's conversation mode -- it gets the torrent of emails I receive into a bit more order. It took me a LONG time to come to like it ... initially I hated it, and wished Google would institute a toggle between chronological and conversation views, but now I wouldn't give it away.

Reply

It's about time. It only makes sense. Yahoo, after all, gives you unlimited storage for Photos. Why not for Mail?

Still waiting on that upgrade to Briefcase, though.

Reply

Oh my God, did the Google fanboys just come out in force this morning.

Geez, regardless of Yahoo's motivation or whether you are going to use all the petabytes of storage or Yahoo Mail at all this is a good thing, because it might force Google (and others) to do the same thing.

Reply

Wow I will never have to delete my spam again :) I can just let it pile up until eternity. I write a web site for antique spam.

Reply

Let's see what happens on 'Gmail Day' - April 1st!

Reply

And with Gmail you really don't get adds, I mean seriously can you even call google adds even adds? If you complain about them you need a life, its only text. Thats what I love about Google, no retarded-ly huge adds that flash and go bang and make people who like shiny things click on them.

Reply

It's actually kind of easy to fill up a Google account if you're a photographer and you're mailing large files to models for approval. I'm at 88% full up at this point and have had to go and prune my attachments several times over the last year.

If I can really go over 100% or if Gmail goes unlimited it's going to save me a lot of free time!

Reply

Upfront disclaimer — I work for AOL and lead the Mail Product Management & Business teams.

With all the talk about Yahoo and Gmail, I thought I'd jump in and note that AOL has offered unlimited email storage to its users since 2005. AOL is free to everyone via AOL.com.

Reply

Great! Now ALL of my email can be accessed by the Chinese government!

Reply