Yahoo! Throws Gigs
Since when did your electronic postman complained that he's having a hard time delivering mail? Well, I suppose it was the day that a a humble e-salesman decided to invent spamming. Today, there's no sign of that slowing down nor is the moderation of junk archival.
When Mr. G entered the mail game, he introduced the concept of saving the junk. Unhealthy as it sounds with no recycling process taking place, all what was to expect is the entire mail protocol cracking beepers all around. Now that wasn't such a hard task when the concept had it's own purpose; inspiration!
Recently having revised their service policies for free users, Yahoo! Mail had probably given its users a grand impression of maintaining standards and advocating competence. But as it seems, it was all apparent or so they seem to realize. As of their latest plans to increase storage capacity and improve features, they have certainly stepped into the ring.
So what's the big deal? Well, I should ask u first. How many Yahoo! mails have you got? What's your spam per day rate? How much more could your account accomodate with increased capacity? and what's your rate of increase in the spam game after all these fancy upgrades? Do the math.
However that may sound, we are most likely talking about very low rates. After all Yahoo! has a good reputation in privacy protection than most others in the game. And this seems to be a more plausible method to answer G's threat and to introduce users to their other fee-based services. According to the techs, Yahoo! has one of the advanced security systems in place for their mail subscribers. An now in the middle of all this, it's gonna get even better with the implementation of a virus-screening tool in addition to virus scanning, of course powered by Norton, that has the ability to scrub attachments rather than kill them. Still, I would have loved to hear more about the spam filters if it had undergone any updates.
Now, I could barely think of any better prank on Fools Day, but if the hoo's are in for it, all Yahoo! mail users could expect their mail boxes shining with 1GB storage with up to 10MB attachment limits that could certainly ditch Hotmail for good. So guys, here's your chance to multiply your junk collection. Good Luck!
Naz
Saturday, March 26, 2005 |
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