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Yahoo to give unlimited space to e-mails, close competition MIL/Agencies, Mar 29, 2007. March 29, 2007 - As people's inboxes continually expand, e-mail providers are making their best to to outdo each other to stay on top of the (literally) ever-growing market. That's why, on the verge of the 10-year anniversary of the service, Yahoo! Mail will no longer have a storage limit as of this coming May as per Yahoo! Mail vice president John Kremer . The Vice President announced the decision in a blog post early this morning, writing that their users now have the "freedom to never worry about deleting old messages again." Yahoo to embed instant messaging into e-mail Previous to this announcement, Yahoo! Mail's limit was 1GB, bumped up from 100MB in 2005. The move to 1GB of storage was made mostly to stay in competition with Gmail, which was the new kid on the block and also touted 1GB of storage at the time. This was leaps and bounds ahead of nearly all other web mail providers, and services like Yahoo! and MSN Hotmail were struggling to find ways to stay competitive. Since then, Gmail has bumped up its storage space once again, to 2.83GB "and counting... you'll never need to delete another message," which seems to be Google's way of indirectly saying that their service also offers unlimited storage space. Although Kremer told Reuters that the reason for the upgrade was because of the increasing size and volume of rich media files and photos in their users' inboxes, it would be hard to believe that a major factor in the upgrade isn't once again tied to Google's seemingly endless resources. It's unclear at this time whether Yahoo! Mail will enforce individual file size limits as Gmail currently does. Yahoo! wants to make clear, however, that this new unlimited storage option is not without guidelines to protect against abuse. The web mail service is meant for personal use, says the company, and will not tolerate spammers. And Kramer doesn't want Yahoo! Mail users to get all worked up over a specific date when a switch might be flipped: "we'll be rolling this out over a few months to facilitate a smooth transition," he writes.
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