yahoo email accounts - 2 gigs

[renegade600]

I found this (http://news.com.com/Yahoo+to+launch+100MB+free+e-mail/2100-1023_3-5233594.html?tag=nefd.top) article about yahoo email accounts and their free accounts are now 100 megs and paid accounts are 2 gigs.

I just went to check my paid account and it's now 2 gigs. Competition is now heating up with gmail. I wonder who will win in the end. Any comments...

[lufbra]

Mine still has the 4 mb's of space available. Within a matter of two or three days I can accumulate anything up to 200 spam mails, I don't see the point in offering such a large ammount of space, they'd do better to concentrate more on cutting out as much spam as possible. :(

[Melodi]

I'm glad someone started this, so I didn't have to. I came into work to find a 2 gig mailbox and then I remember someone posted a thread about them spying on us if we had such a big box. I was content with my 25mg mail box. So what's the deal with this now are they spying on us??????

[nikolasvarma]

I'm glad someone started this, so I didn't have to. I came into work to find a 2 gig mailbox and then I remember someone posted a thread about them spying on us if we had such a big box. I was content with my 25mg mail box. So what's the deal with this now are they spying on us??????

yes that was my thread, i didnt discover yet what would happen about spying. But i am sure the number of eyes upon net users will increase, i am terrified. and told my old mama to becareful sending me emails :blush: . How can i make her understand the hole thing. Im sure yahoo is trustable, but can anyone garantee the unleak of our personal info?. It is just like when first making of chemical weapons, no one knew details. but now every avg income person can make a lab at home. who is mistake is this.......
Becareful all, and happy yahoo!.......
Regards
Nikola

[Melodi]

Renegade, are you able to access your Yahoo mail, via browser? My comes into outlook verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry slow and I can't access it via browser here at work.

[renegade600]

Renegade, are you able to access your Yahoo mail, via browser? My comes into outlook verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry slow and I can't access it via browser here at work.I can access it both ways without a problem. I usually just look at it via mailwasher, delete problem emails before downloading to outlook. With the new changes, there may be some bugs in the system. I had problems logging on with the browser when I first found out about the changes and wanted to check it out. It took a few tries before finally getting the page. It seems to be okay now.

[renegade600]

I'm glad someone started this, so I didn't have to. I came into work to find a 2 gig mailbox and then I remember someone posted a thread about them spying on us if we had such a big box. I was content with my 25mg mail box. So what's the deal with this now are they spying on us??????
I am not sure what changes yahoo will make as the result of the bigger mailboxes. For the time being, I think their current policy remains but I think rereading their email tos may be something that needs to be done.

The spying that was refered to was with googles gmail. They will be scanning your emails and placing ads in them based on the subject of them. Not sure if that is a good idea. Also not sure if the larger boxes are a good idea but time will tell.

[Melodi]

I still can't access my yahoo (sbcglobal) mail via the browser, or rather I can....but it's sooooo slow.

[renegade600]

I still can't access my yahoo (sbcglobal) mail via the browser, or rather I can....but it's sooooo slow.
try deleting your cookies and temporary internet files.

[Melodi]

I work between two buildings and neither of my computers could log into it, one is set to dump temp files every day. Now at home I can get it via outlook, but not thru the browser and my messenger won't log me in. I'm soooooo glad that they've improved my service...I've been waiting for this for along time. Can't access email and login to messenger...geez, what am I paying for?

[renegade600]

I work between two buildings and neither of my computers could log into it, one is set to dump temp files every day. Now at home I can get it via outlook, but not thru the browser and my messenger won't log me in. I'm soooooo glad that they've improved my service...I've been waiting for this for along time. Can't access email and login to messenger...geez, what am I paying for?
I wonder if it is a sbc problem if it is on several computers?

[Melodi]

Dear SBC Yahoo! DSL Member,

We hope you are enjoying your subscription to SBC Yahoo! DSL, which includes your Mail Plus account. It's our goal to offer you an email experience that makes it easy to stay in touch and offers great value. Periodically, we make changes to enhance the service for our users. As of June 15, 2004, you'll enjoy the following benefits at no additional charge:



Increase in your storage quota to 2GB
No graphical ads
A streamlined interface that's even easier to use
You will continue to access your Mail Plus account as usual. No further action is required, and there will be no interruption of your service. For more information, please click here (http://help.yahoo.com/us/sbc/dsl/mail/about/about-13.html).

Sincerely,

SBC Yahoo! DSL Member Services

[Melodi]

My son can't log into his messenger either and he's just plain old Yahoo non paying. They must have some 'bugs' to work. I'm glad to know that it's not just our software at work that has 'bugs'

[renegade600]

looks like your problem could have been the dos attack mentioned in this (http://news.com.com/Blackout+hits+major+Web+sites/2100-1038_3-5234500.html?tag=nefd.lede) article.

[nikolasvarma]

im still having troubles loggin into my free 100mb account, i didnt try my paid one yet... i had to try 3 times before getting access....
Regards
Nikola

[PCStudent]

I wonder if it is a sbc problem if it is on several computers?
It seems that with the numerous upgrades that yahoo has been doing their servers are slowed downt to almost a crawl