[Politech] Gmail's existence leads to... more email space for Yahoo customers! [priv]

From: Declan McCullagh (declan@private)
Date: Mon May 17 2004 - 21:09:45 PDT

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    [Privacy fundamentalists want to outlaw Google's Gmail. But without 
    Gmail's existence -- and the competitive threat it poses -- millions of 
    people who use Yahoo's free service would have had to continue to 
    squeeze their correspondence into a tiny 4 MB. (That's the size of one 
    six-megapixel RAW image from a Canon 10D.) Low-income people and folks 
    from developing countries rely on free email services -- this 
    competition is a particular boon to them. If the left-leaning privacy 
    fundamentalists were true to their creed, they'd applaud Gmail rather 
    than clamoring to ban it. --Declan]
    
    
    http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5212262.html
    
    Yahoo boosts free e-mail storage to 100MB
    Last modified: May 13, 2004, 2:53 PM PDT
    By Jim Hu
    
    Web portal Yahoo will begin offering "virtually unlimited storage" for 
    its paid e-mail customers and will upgrade free users to 100MB, an 
    executive said Thursday.
    
    The upgrade is part of an overall enhancement for Yahoo Mail that will 
    launch this summer. Besides additional storage, the service will get a 
    face-lift and tie in more Yahoo-branded services, such as Photos and 
    Messenger.
    
    The announcement comes a month after search rival Google said it would 
    launch a free e-mail service called Gmail that offers 1GB of storage, 
    considerably more space than free versions of Yahoo Mail and Microsoft's 
    Hotmail. Yahoo currently offers 4MB of storage to free users of its 
    e-mail service.
    
    [...]
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