Reuters recently reported that in May, Yahoo plans to offer unlimited e-mail storage to its users. That's about 250 million e-mail users! Its e-mail limit has been 1GB. Ten years ago when Yahoo first introduced e-mail service, it limited you to 4MB. Yet, these days, people have been looking for and switching to other free e-mail providers who offer larger storage capacity: Microsoft with 2GB and Google's Gmail with 2.8GB.
If you have Yahoo, you know that you are forced to delete old e-mails when you are at your limit. Co-founder David Filo now says, "You can keep stuff forever." I say, "Wow! That's a mighty big promise."
People are sending more media-rich files in e-mails and this surely has prompted Yahoo to reassess its policies. So, how can they make money? That's the catch. The increased storage capacity is only for personal use, and, of course you are subject to Yahoo's guidelines. ne of the reasons that Yahoo may be offering more e-mail storage is that storage is costing less these days. iPods can carry 100 hours of video and more and
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