Comments on: Yahoo will offer an infinite mailbox

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:09:55 +0000

Now mail mailbox homepage reads
“The storage meter is now history.

Revel in unlimited space for more of what you love.”

effective today. high-five!

By: f1sh

f1sh — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:15:55 +0000

I’d agree with Mr.X 10mb attachments are fucking annoying, and there is no use to the infinite storage unless they raise the barrier

By: rev

rev — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:09:22 +0000

the big picture here is y! is pulling the caps off of all storage limits over time. Filo has a hard on for the “social disk” concept. Flickr brought the koolaid by showing how charging for bandwidth not disk space can work. and yeah, its about keeping y! in the center of the web users universe. not so nefarious as snooping your files, simply justification for charging ten times as much for banner ads.

and once you’ve got all your stash in their boxes, they can charge extra to help you find and manage all that crap. “premium services”.

@Dexter
you know Opera never makes it onto their official A-grade browser list, don’t you? that means no love what so ever. don’t think they even q/a against it.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:17:23 +0000

Useless, this isn’t even worth making a post. Maybe it’d have been worth it if the poster mentioned it was Yahoo! Mail’s 10th birthday.

Anyways, I find this so called infinite space totally worthless, nothing but a cheap marketing gimmick.

What we really want from yahoo are better spam prevention, more filters, POP3/IMAP access, and a good interface that works in Opera.

By: Lol

Lol — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:37:06 +0000

cool, i dont even use this much storage, but its cool tough. (I guess im one of those “average” users you guys were talking about)

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:52:21 +0000

Well as long as the attachment size is not 10MB limit then I say it’s a good idea.

By: pr4wn4

pr4wn4 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:17:13 +0000

“People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives,”
The Man would love that, just a subpoena away from joe average revealing more than he expected!
Google put up a fight not to reveal search info, i bet yahoo and the like are just a little bit more co-operative.

By: James

James — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:44:38 +0000

but arent you limited in gmail to like 10mb per file.. and like who da fuk wants to fill up a thing thats 2 or 3 gb in size with 10mb files… BaaaaaaH

By: Gero

Gero — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:35:46 +0000

They can have as many memory as the want, yahoo mail ist still teh sheisse!

By: tucker

tucker — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:27:24 +0000

“And just why should anybody want an infinite mail box !?.”

actually no one. Yahoo knows this, they’re just using the ‘contrast principle’ as their marketing ploy. and from my own personally experience with a startup company from the Dotcom days, i can assure you it works beyond your wildest imagination. People are sheeps, they’ll now correlate the ‘Yahoo’ brand with features like ‘infinite’, ‘unlimited’, not just Yahoo Email. Hence Yahoo is the best compared to everyone else..

By: hikaricore

hikaricore — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:07:42 +0000

I used to use a linux script which mounted my gmail
account as a virtual drive. It used python to convert
the data into encoded emails which it sent from me to
myself. It actually worked quite well when gmail wasn’t
acting like a crack addict. I never got around to testing
the true limit due to the slow write time. One day I’ll
try it out.

By: scot

scot — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:58:36 +0000

i love your mom

By: 420

420 — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:23:02 +0000

“you have something called Gmail drive, so you can use your account as a virtual drive in ‘My Computer’. Works awesome. It’s time someone makes a yahoo-version then!” -Scit

That’s about the only thing it would be useful for. I can’t understand why anyone would want to save e-mail anyway. You read the e-mail, then you delete it. I have a Gmail drive myself but never once used it. It is a good place for backing up some important files however.

Of course what we should be talking about is why do these companies do this (increasing e-mail storage). The reason that they do it is to encourage users to store all their e-mail throughout their lives and never delete it. This in turn, gives these assholes access to a lot of information about people which they can then use or sell for marketing purposes, help convict people of crimes, etc., etc. It’s basically like me renting out my hard drive to someone. “Hey, free storage!” right? But then of course I would have access to everything that you put there.

I’m not saying that these companies will do anything illegal or unorthodox with your data. But, don’t rely on some privacy policy to protect you. They can change their service terms anytime they want and the way they wrote the terms will always favor them in case of a legal proceeding.

Be smart – delete your e-mail people. Don’t give these assholes access to your personal lives. They want your data…that’s why they’re offering more and more storage…just think about it. What else would be the motivation for these companies outdoing each other on e-mail storage? It’s free; they won’t make any money from it (at least directly). They do make money from ads and marketing. Yahoo wants to beat Google to get as much personal data from you as possible, it’s really that simple. Once they have your data, they can do anything they want with it. They can sell your data to marketing companies, or use it against you in a court of law.
The choice is yours, children. You can either give in to these companies’ marketing ploys or you can be smart and pass on their “offers”.

By: Thinker

Thinker — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:02:39 +0000

well . i already filled up once my 2,8GB from gmail, i deleted 2GB of older messages and now it’s 81% again… and this amount only with regular mail from my work as freelancer that has lots of attachments to and from clients…

so there are people who need this amount of storage…

ps. please excuse my poor english as english is not my native language.

By: user

user — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:42:33 +0000

“People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives”

… and we all want to use yahoo services to access our lives, don’t we.