ahha!! The big boys need to catch up to Gmail
 

heh, I signed into yahoo today, and now....

"Great news – Yahoo! Mail is new and improved!

Thanks for being a loyal Yahoo! Mail user. To ensure that Yahoo! Mail continues to be the easiest, most enjoyable way for you to stay in touch, we've made several great improvements to your service! In addition to all the features you currently enjoy, we've made these upgrades:
Streamlined interface
Makes using your mail even easier
100MB of email storage
Keep more of the things that are important to you – without worrying about bumping up against your storage limit.
Message size up to 10MB
Send monster-sized files – photos, presentations, whatever!
So thanks again for choosing Yahoo! Mail to keep in touch, and we hope you enjoy the additional services now at your fingertips. For more information, please visit our Help page."

very cool. free email is a beautiful thing, and google forcing the others to upgrade their services is sweeeet!!! :D

yeah, it'll be great if everyone "upgrades" email services. file attachment size is a great thing...

however.

i can imagine that one huge attachments are allowed by the "free" mail services, you can almost guarantee that spammers/crackers are going to use this to their advantage....

(not that they don't already...)

I have to say yahoo has been excellent as far as spam goes. I get little to no spam on my yahoo accounts. Which I can't say for hotmail. Within hours of creating an account for hotmail I got horsefucker and dick pill spam. That really pissed me off, because I hadn't used the email address anywhere! Great to think that my daughter can sign up for an email account and get that kinda shit. I mean hey, we're all into horsefucking, but not till 18 ;)

I too have found Yahoo's spam filter to be much better than Hotmail's. Is the new Yahoo Mail running slower than usual for anyone else here?

*edit* seems to have sped up. Must've been only temporary.

No, it's running faster for me. I don't know if it's just a side effect of me thinking it's so much better or it really is.

I've only recently started getting spam with the Yahoo account that I've had for over a year. I used to get about one spam message per month or less, but now i get one every two or three days. On my old hotmail account I got about a thousand per week. I stopped using it before that point, but I would still go back to check for any important messages.

my sbcglobal account (which is a Yahoo joint service) has 2gb of storage now.

Yesterday I received an invite to gmail, which yahoo sorted as spam, go figure. But in the meantime SBC Yahoo sent me this message:Ok, seriously, what the hell am I supposed to do with 3gb of email storage?

I think we can all agree that porn is the answer. :)