According to news reports, it's because they're gearing up to compete with Google's GMail service, which is currently in beta, and which offers 1GB of storage space.
Apparently Yahoo had to increase its servers by a factor of 25 to accomplish this. There are SOME things on which economy of scale is valid. I just wish the damned Wall Street bankers (for whom I work) would figure out that it doesn't hold for all companies. And that therefore bigger is not always necessarily better.
See this article (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/16/BUG6P76LR91.DTL&type=business); there was also a cyberattack that slowed several large sites yesterday, including Yahoo! So it may have been their upgrade, it may have been this other thing.
Either way, the increase in space is to compete with GMail, and whatthehell, 100MB free ain't to sneeze at.
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Apparently Yahoo had to increase its servers by a factor of 25 to accomplish this. There are SOME things on which economy of scale is valid. I just wish the damned Wall Street bankers (for whom I work) would figure out that it doesn't hold for all companies. And that therefore bigger is not always necessarily better.
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It may be that my gmail account isn't on any spam lists yet, but I haven't received a single piece of spam yet.
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May have been a different reason
Either way, the increase in space is to compete with GMail, and whatthehell, 100MB free ain't to sneeze at.