Comments on: Online Email Storage Lockin?

By: Michael S

Michael S — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:06:10 +0000

It only encourages lazyness – especially in people like myself ;)

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:49:46 +0000

My Yahoo is 250 Mb. It is a nice tactic to lock in people. But is people using these free email accounts for serious stuff? I mostly use it around the Internet, and I will not feel bad throwing it away.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:07:37 +0000

I don’t use my Yahoo account, but it’s not up to 2gb yet.

By: luke

luke — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:15:38 +0000

why not keep several accounts then? i’ve switched back and forth between several accounts with lots and lots of stuff on them and rather than switch entirely i just keep them all. it’s perhaps less comfortable than having everything in one place but it’s certainly better than switching services with 2 gigs of stuff.

then again, if you can accumulate 2 gigs of email then you’re a hero in my books.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 03:09:17 +0000

For my liking its they way you use it. I’m change between computers fairly regularly depending on what or where I am so I like having Gmail but at the end of the evening back on my desktop I download all my gmail into Thunderbird and sort it. I know it sounds daft but this way I’ve got my own personal archive at home, yet because I’ve set gmail to to archive all email (even the stuff I download a copy of) I can also access all my old stuff externally to.

While I’m at it I still don’t like the way Gmail does archiving, I’d love to see drag and drop folders, which is what I do with Thunderbird, only then might I even consider using gmail online only.

By: Isaack

Isaack — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 19:26:58 +0000

I don’t care either… I’m happy with my Gmail :)

But like I discovered with Hotmail, some services are not always provided globally.

http://www.isaack.info/archives/2005/03/04/more-storage-get-250mb-hotmail-redux/

By: Jeremy C. Wright

Jeremy C. Wright — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:44:49 +0000

I’m in Canada, but I am using a Yahoo.com account. Not that I care about storage, since I use my own mailserver (Yahoo is only used so I can check POP mail while I’m on the go).

Just thought it was interesting that I hadn’t yet seen anyone else reporting this.

By: Isaack

Isaack — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:38:38 +0000

Mine is still 250MB… perhaps, it’s US only again, like with Hotmail