Yahoo ups e-mail storage to 250MB.

Yahoo has upgraded e-mail accounts up to 250 megabytes of storage. This type of competition for e-mail is something all the major search engines must play. If they're offering free web e-mail, then storage megabytes will be important to people. With the size of e-mail attachments getting bigger and more spam stuffing our e-mail boxes, then this is a necessary evil. I say evil because having larger e-mail boxes only makes accomodation for spam. It's really sad when we have to figure in how to cope with e-mails we were never intended to get.

Google offers 1GB of storage, but GMail is by invitation only and they are not offering it to the public generally. If they did, I imagine there would be such a rush to get a GMail account that it would stop their system. I would imagine it will be some time before GMail is offered to the public, right now it's in beta. I've heard good things about GMail.

As it is, Yahoo has a good web mail service and 250MB should be plenty of space for anyone who wants a larger e-mail box.