Of Yahoo! and GMail
Well, as Tom and Joe have reported, Yahoo has upped their limits on their email accounts. The free ones are now 100MB and if you pay the annual $19.99 for MailPlus (like I do) then your storage goes to a whopping 2GB. Excellent. Take THAT GMail 🙂
I also now have a GMail account, and I have two more invites that I can send out. If you want one of them, let me know. The Captain was already whining so I’ve sent him one, but I’m now ready to share with other Domino faithful in the community.
It’ll be interesting to see how things shake out in these free email wars. The Google search and targeted ads seem like pretty cool features, but it remains to be seen how good spam prevention is. Also, there is now a POP3 program to allow you to get GMail down to your machine. Wonder how long it will take GMail to kill that off?
I can’t wait to see where this is all going because webmail services are just going to get better and better and we will all benefit.
June 15, 2004 @ 8:19 pm
Hey, if you’ve still got an invite handy, I’d be mighty obliged if you’d consider sending one my way
….and I *am* curious to see how long before MUCH larger spams are being sent out.
June 15, 2004 @ 9:42 pm
Not a problem Joe. And I doubt that spammers will start to send larger emails. It’s cost prohibitive because they can send fewer messages that way. They want to have a blaster cannon that can send out millions of emails, and increasing size of messages will probably give them a lower hit rate.
Be looking for that invite, it’s on the way!
-Grey
June 15, 2004 @ 9:52 pm
Check out http://gmail.prattboy.net/
Judging by this guy’s results, GMail’s spam filters are (so far) only 50% effective. He also managed to overload his 1 GB of space with spam. Heh.
Take care,
Mike
June 16, 2004 @ 7:11 am
Yo JR, Thanks for sending the invite. I’ve set things up on gmail and have started testing. Anxious to see how it operates….and how invasive the ads will feel. Cheers.