Yahoo to Offer Unlimited Email Storage

Josh Fink writes to tell us that Yahoo has announced that they will be offering unlimited email storage starting this coming May. The launch is all a part of Yahoo's ten year anniversary. While not all users will see their storage caps disappear right away Yahoo is promising that this feature will eventually reach their entire population.

New business plan

[Harmonious Botch]

1) Offer backup services for a modest fee 2) Mail them to my yahoo account 3) profit

Nice idea.

[crazyjeremy]

I am offering unlimited free $1 bills to anyone who leaves intelligent replies to this comment. While I may not send yours to you right away I will try to send it eventually.

Re:Nice idea.

[Anonymous Coward]

I beg to disagree with your assertion that you will send unlimited $1 bills to posters of intelligent comments. I move that the set of all existing dollar bills is countable, since it has a one-to-one correspondence with the algebraic group Z. Ergo, by modus ponens, you cannot have unlimited dollar bills. If you did, a simple reductio ad absurdum dictates that they'd have no value, and therefore I would not want them anyway.

I'd like a couple ...

[tekkguy]

I'd like a couple of those unlimited GB hard drives. You know, just in case I fill one of them up ... oh, wait. Nevermind.

Fantastic!

[Dunbal]

Great! Now I know where to store all that kittie po...uhh, nevermind.

Re:Do I really need more Yahoo Space?

[flynt]

Isn't it killing you that you have 71 legit messages in there?

It's like the infinite improbability machine...

[physicsboy500]

You just feed the storage media into itself and boom... infinite storage!

Re:Nice idea.

[Dunbal]

If you did, a simple reductio ad absurdum dictates that they'd have no value, and therefore I would not want them anyway.

      Bravo Sir, stated like a true Nerd!

      PSST: I'll have his!

Re:New business plan

[iadude1010]

cp internet* [e-mail] backups are good

Dennis Miller line:

[mellonhead]

(re: Men's Wearhouse "2-fer sale") "Hey folks, two of SHIT is SHIT. If they really wanted to fuck you, they'd give you three of these things."

Re:Fantastic!

[nine-times]

Kittie or Kiddie? Either way.... you sick bastard!

Re:New business plan

[timster]

You must be really, REALLY new here.

I'll stick with Gmail thank you

[Nonillion]

Sorry, but I think my current Gmail's 2833 MB of storage ought to be enough for anyone.

Re:Nice idea.

[Pollardito]

You do realise that the rollout of the previous upgrades in mailbox size didn't all happen in one go as well, right?

exactly! the previous rollouts came out overtime as they put into place the infrastructure to handle the new size, so i anticipate that they will also roll this one out as infinite space becomes available for more and more users

does anyone know if there is any truth to the rumor that Google is going to save costs on storing gmail accounts by storing everyone's email in one huge Yahoo mail account?

Re:Fantastic!

[networkBoy]

Parent NSFW

YahooFS may replace SlashdoFS

[goombah99]

The problem with GoogleFS was that it was a lot of work for relatively little, slow storage. Thus it's main utility -- offsite backups--was of little value. Now with unlimited E-mail storage the value of it for offsite backups is realizable. So would someone please create YahooFS so that I can mount my yahooMail-based file system on my desktop and drag my files across?

Up until now I have been using my own hand rolled SlashdotFS. It works by encoding data into comments. It uses a Markov chain sentence generator to encode data in english looking sentences then writes them as comments in slashdot. I use a redudancy system to prevent data loss if comments are deleted. The other problem is that because the system is write-only, it's means lots of bandwidth for files I change frequently. Even so it works. But the results has been that I feel kinda guilty about all the gibberish comments I insert into slashdot. The good news is that because of the english markov sentence generator, no one can actually tell that it's data so they just think it's some person they need to begin flaming immediately.

In the last version of the program I actually made the post somwhat on-topic by retraining the markov genewrator based on the word field distribution of the thread itself. Slightly slower, but then it looks like a conversation.

I'd feel a lot less guilty if I could use YahooFS instead.

Re:YahooFS may replace SlashdoFS

[goombah99]

By the way, the above post was just an encoded version of my secret egg salad recipe.

Re:Fantastic!

[Dunbal]

Kittie or Kiddie? Either way.... you sick bastard!

      I can't help it! I just can't get enough of that pussy...

Re:Nice idea.

[God'sDuck]

Unlimited manure would probably be less desirable.

Depends -- does it have to be sent to *my* address?

Re:New business plan

[Viper Daimao]

Finally a storage that can hold all my porn!

Re:YahooFS may replace SlashdoFS

[Sporkinum]

Saracen pig! Spartan dog! Take this! And this! Roman cow! Russian snake! Spanish fly!

+1 for a What's up Tiger Lily reference!

Re:YahooFS may replace SlashdoFS

[kurzweilfreak]

Congrats on your generator passing the Turing test. :)

Re:Do I really need more Yahoo Space?

[MMC Monster]

More likely the spam filter was wrong about 1% of the time. :-)

Re:YahooFS may replace SlashdoFS

[jzeejunk]

I use a redudancy(sic) system to prevent data loss if comments are deleted.

with all the dupes i'm sure redundancy is not that much of a concern.

Re:YahooFS may replace SlashdoFS

[rez_rat]

The funny thing is... most those comments were modded "Insightful"!!!

S-

Re:YahooFS may replace SlashdoFS

[ockegheim]

My bad, that was my /.ModerationFS implementation.

Nothing to see here...

[mjeppsen]

*yawn*
Yahoo...Bringing you Yesterday's innovations Next Year.

-MJ