Posted by ketyung
on Mar/28/2007
at 1:28 am
Seriously, I’ve not logged in to my Yahoo Mail account for a couple of weeks, after switching to using GMail. That is mainly one reason, or just my own bias. GMail is much speedier and provides better organization for my email, which the way they do it, getting email organized in threads, simply the way I love. Having emails grouped in threads is much easier for me to go through the list of emails in my inbox and easily to pick up only those wanted for reading. I don’t choose a web mail account based on the storage size they offer. I switched to GMail is not because of it offers bigger storage size than Yahoo does, mainly because of it’s greater in usability. To me, I do not need such a big storage size, as I normally kick out all those junk mails and also delete those emails that I’ve already read if they aren’t the important ones. I only keep those important ones in my inbox or in a special folder.
But it seems like now the web mail service providers are trying to compete in size. And Yahoo will give its users unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. The current Yahoo’s storage limit is 1 GB per account (2 GB for $20/year premium users). With this change, Yahoo leapfrogs Gmail (2.8 GB and growing) and Live.com Mail (2GB). According to Yahoo’s Vice President of Mail, John Kremer, the new unlimited storage affect all Yahoo mail users. I personally feel that having bigger storage just like encouraging users not to read their emails that often. You know, several years back when Hotmail offered a mere 2MB storage, was like an urge to push us to read and delete our emails more frequently. Of course, Yahoo’s users are subject to Yahoo’s abuse policies. Users to follow “normal email practices†and not engage in activities like using Yahoo mail for basic online storage. Abusive accounts will not be summarily deleted – users will be notified by Yahoo and/or accounts suspended, but users will still have access to the data. What I can think of the kind of abuse would be getting friends to send you all the porn clips and store it on Yahoo forever.
The Yahoo Mail’s interface surely is great, it’s just like having an Outlook Express on the web. Perhaps, it’s only great for those connected with high bandwidth and PC loaded with high memory. As the overly loaded AJAX/DHTML effect somehow makes scrolling and fetching emails a bit sluggish. The unlimited storage offered by Yahoo will not be an attraction to me for switching back. I still prefer GMail, unless I purposely wanna abuse it, to use for storing junk mails or porn clips, till I get banned by Yahoo!
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