Boos for Yahoo
By Bob Small
Somewhere about the turn of the century, remember the Year 2000 problem ? we expected.
Once the year 2000 happened and the universe yawned, my thoughts turned to getting a home email. Yahoo had two great selling points; it was free, free, free and had unlimited capacity! Full disclosure; I’m not exactly a hoarder but I’m still trying to unload around 500 of my 45 rpm records from the days.
Anyway, around a while ago, I received the same fatal notice, as millions of others, that I had until Aug. 27 to get back to 20 GB. Though this was changed three different times in September, the ax finally fell a month later. One could have chosen to pay but, like many single men (and women) think “why pay for something I’ve been getting for free?”
While I frantically forwarded photos and other weighty attachments to my other emails, the search began for other options. Well, if the former me was around, the Yukon Jack would of come out. Instead, this me choose a few new free emails.
Which Spock used to say “does not compute?” I think it was Mister.
Here’s another source I found in my research: Free email accounts with large or unlimited storage capacity.
By the way, it’s a good idea to keep a list of emails and passwords someplace other than in your head, especially if, like most of us, you have more than one e-mail.
Next we come to “byte size”.
Understanding file sizes | Bytes, KB, MB, GB, TB, PB, EB … breaks this down in understandable terms.
What this reduction exercise clarified for me is that there were email senders that are no longer important to me and those that still are. The important ones now go to my AOL email and the formerly important are in Yahoo, which may never return to below capacity (though there are 10 minutes a day devoted to deletions, , from my 10,000 email inbox.+
There’s also an option with Thunderbird which I’m slowly learning how to use.
See also Yahoo Mail Storage Shrinks from 1 TB to 20 GB
