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Yahoo to offer 100mb free e-mail

Posted by geeknews at 3:29 AM on June 15, 2004

In a move a day late and dollar short Yahoo has announced changes to it’s free e-mail quotas. I have been using Gmail now for a couple of weeks and the speed of the service and low graphical overhead beats Yahoo hands down. My wife has been using it also and has feel in love with it. As soon as they get the International character recognition working then it will be a absolute success.
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12 Comments

  1. From brian at 3:52 am on June 15, 2004

    http://www.aventuremail.com/ is offering 2GB of free email storage now. =)

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  2. From Mathew at 1:17 pm on June 15, 2004

    HaHa, it’s funny how this is making such big news all over the internet today. I also have a gmail account, and its great as my “play” email address. But for business use I couldn’t be happier with Sentinare. 1GB, POP, IMAP, SMTP, SSL. Real professional service for biz critical email.

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  3. From R Blair at 2:58 pm on June 15, 2004

    No free email @ aventuremail.com

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  4. From intradink at 3:57 pm on June 15, 2004

    BT.Yahoo (broadband) subscribers are being offered 2GB storage.

    “…we would like to confirm that your email storage has increased from 50MB to 2GB* (or 2,000MB) for primary accounts and from 10MB to 100MB for secondary accounts.”

    The interface has been updated and is running pretty quickly now. Although it’s still not as good as Gmail.

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  5. From Paparazzi at 12:37 am on June 16, 2004

    gmail accounts are going into the Junk folder of Yahoo mail! Now, this is bad, I mean, it would be dangerous and an unwelcome side to competition if mail servers are going to treat a competitors mail as junk!

    The down side for gmail is that no exe files or zipped exe files can be send or received. user names gotta be 6 characters and up, no pop2, imap, no virus scan! What would be the use of a GB if an exe file cannot be transferred?

    …. but then, hopefully that will all change with time!

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  6. From Blog-Her :: Pandora's Box at 6:08 pm on June 16, 2004

    New Tech Gear!

    Checking to see if the email I wanted is now free — nope, still nothing. :(

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  7. From Blog-Her :: Pandora's Box at 6:08 pm on June 16, 2004

    New Tech Gear!

    Checking to see if the email I wanted is now free — nope, still nothing. :(

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  8. From Blog-Her :: Pandora's Box at 6:08 pm on June 16, 2004

    New Tech Gear!

    Checking to see if the email I wanted is now free — nope, still nothing. :(

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  9. From Blog-Her :: Pandora's Box at 6:08 pm on June 16, 2004

    New Tech Gear!

    Checking to see if the email I wanted is now free — nope, still nothing. :(

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  10. From Sundar at 4:15 am on June 22, 2004

    My mail box didnot get upgraded at all. It still shows 6 Mb !!

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  11. From Sundar at 4:15 am on June 22, 2004

    My mail box didnot get upgraded at all. It still shows 6 Mb !!

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  12. From home at 3:14 pm on July 2, 2004

    BT.Yahoo Strikes Back

    BT Yahoo have come back to Google’s Gmail service, by offering: – “…we would like to confirm that your email storage has increased from 50MB to 2GB* (or 2,000MB) for primary accounts and from 10MB to 100MB for secondary…

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