Screw Gmail. I just got a 100-meg quota on my Yahoo! e-mail account. Granted, it’s not Gmails 1-gig, but I already have a larger quota than that on my personal email account on this server. And my mail gets downloaded anyway — I don’t use IMAP. The primary reason I would want Gmail is so I could e-mail a large file to it that I needed to download on another person’s computer. I’d basically use it as a file storage medium. Yahoo! Mail, for $20/year, also offers 2-gig of storage.
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I got yahoo’s $20 dealie in order to get a 25meg account several months ago. Luckily, when they made their promised bid against gmail this morning, they did not forget about us current subscribers.. I was immediately bumped up to the 2 gig tier.
One reason I was getting interested in Gmail was that those initial 25 meg were getting full all of the time. I get lots of digital camera files in regards to the paper. I delete any I’m not using this very week, but just normal messages from the past several months appeared to somehow fill up 20 megs. 500 of them.. at an average of 10k to be precise. No the math doesn’t add up, Yahoo was jipping me.
Also, I’m sure that Yahoo was going to randomly throw gigs of mail storage at me in Q2 2004 and it’s just a coincidence that Gmail recently appeared on the horizon. Yahoo would never feel pressure to modify their service to compete with some upstart or another, would they?
Now the best feature I like about their improved mail system is this rad 1 minute delay when I try to log in.
After a few months, Yahoo will want to rebill my card for $20. They will also undoubtedly be over-estimating the size of my account until suddenly my 700 ~10k messages weigh more than 100mb, so I won’t be able to abide with their free service. But that’s ok since I’ll probably have transitioned over to Gmail at that point anyhow and my friends won’t have to wonder what an “ibutton” is anymore.
gmail is a joke, look at the day it was launched: April 1st which is, if I remeber right is indeed april fools day. I mean its just like the moon base jobs they had going… (see http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html for details.)
I mean would you REALLY let 300,000,000+ have 1 gig of your server..?
Screw GMail? You must not had the chance to see the features of GMail. It is so much nicer then Yahoo. The spell checking is great. The thread view is really nice. I just keep finding so many nice little things about it. And it now works in Safari, whoo hoo!
The little features are what make GMail so nice.
Jesse – good for you!
Yeah, the free Yahoo mail just got better. Sure, Ill get gmail too when it comes out. Why not have 1.1gb of free email storage between the two?
Just a little aside. A 10K image gets a bit bigger when attached to an email, as it is base64 encoded (all file attachments are, for the most part). Still not sure how they are getting 20MB though…..