Yahoo mail steps to Gmail, 1GB free to users and a rant
Tags :Announcement
Here
is the announcement in the
press stating that by the end of April you should see the change. Now on
to the reason we are all here
The 1GB storage upgrade represents an increase of
more than four times from the 250 Megabytes (MB) of space that Yahoo! Mail
users currently enjoy for free.
Yahoo! also offers consumers 20MB attachment
limits, along with Spam Guard, AddressGuard and numerous additional features.
I went down this path before sparking some conversation about why companies
do not offer more space to their own users. Most enterprises complain
that the users are attempting to use the 'free' services. Viruses
are the most common cited reasons for not allowing access to Hotmail, Yahoo,
Gmail or whatever. So let's talk about that.
Most of these services have or are trying to get some advanced virus scanning
in place. Most viruses seem to be home users with nothing running
on the ISP side or locally integrated into their mailfile. I see
more companies not running any types of email scanning for internal
use, yet they don't trust the free services that do run it. I know you
read what I typed up above. Yes they run Spam Guard, a virus scanning
and other features.
Now before anyone in charge of controls and retention gets all excited,
I know all about those types. Yet, with 1GB of free space (actually
unlimited if you are smart enough to move mail around accounts by date
on the net), why would a user want to be restricted to 100MB in their own
company? Where is the ability to start using the mailfile as a true
sorting and file cabinet feature? We teach our users to sort, use
folders, have good management and then turn right around to this conversation
IT Group: "WHOA!, why do you have so much mail?"
User: "Because we are a paperless office and everything I get is
digital"
IT Group: "Well you need to dump some of that or get better organized"
User: "You never provided me a central point for common shared
documents so I have to keep them all in my mail because my network share
is full"
IT Group: "Yes, we are aware that you have too much there also,
print some out and keep hard copies"
User: :"But I thought we were paperless? Why would I print them
all out? Isn't that defeating the purpose"
IT Group: "Sorry, not our problem. Find a way to reduce the
size of your mailfile and network storage, or we will email you reminders
everyday until you hit your quota again"
Ugh. Do I even need to continue? For gosh sakes they will have
20MB attachments! How many of you only allow under that?
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On Thursday, March 24th, 2005 by Chris Miller
