Perpetuating e-mail mediocrity

The Seattle Times: Personal Technology: - options quickly getting bigger, better in the wake of Gmail

I often wonder at the back and forth regarding every service that each search engine offers. This comparison and doing what everyone else does is becoming laughable. Now, with e-mail everyone is saying our storage is bigger that yours just as they said that about how many pages each search engine has indexed. Stop the madness! In my experience, people really aren't interested in these things as long as it takes care of the basic need. The sheer volume of megabytes for e-mail only matters when a person runs out of space, which in this case I don't think they ever will. It's like Mark Twain said "A satisfied need no longer motivates." It's as simple as that. People don't care about this storage issue as long as they have a service that they think does the job for them whatever that may be. And who has been using services more than anyone? Spammers. They love this. I have some customers that use these e-mail boxes so their regular e-mail won't be clogged with spam. What that means is this storage issue is really to store more spam in folders where a person can delete it. That's the real issue, giving people enough space because these services are deluged with spam which can choke out legitmate messages.

Is it good or bad to offer mass amounts of space on these e-mail accounts? Does it only perpetuate spamming or lead to a tolerance of it? Wouldn't it be better not to offer these kind of services at all? It's like the government coming up with programs that are a band-aid for programs that don't work. Why not just eliminate the program that's causing the problem? Anyway, the article gives a good overview of what each service offers.

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