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Spymac, a Web hosting company for Macintosh aficionados, is giving away e-mail accounts that come with 1 gigabyte of storage, mimicking a move search leader Google made last week.

From Monday, current and new subscribers to Spymac Mail will have access to the storage, according to the company. The free e-mail accounts, which can be used with any operating system, do not rely on keyword scanning or advertising, it said in a posting on the Spymac site.

The launch could signal changes to the free e-mail business Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail dominate. These Internet companies impose fees of between $10 and $50 a year for a much smaller amount of e-mail storage. Yahoo subscribers, for example, get 100 megabytes storage--10 times less than Spymac's free 1GB--for $50.

"Yahoo and Hotmail may have to (give away more storage), if they want to stay in the game," said Kevin April, Spymac's co-founder and chief technology officer.

Spymac is trying to promote new Web hosting and auction services by giving away copious amounts of e-mail storage. With roughly 47,000 members, the former Apple Macintosh gossip Web site is small potatoes, compared with Google and other free-mail providers. But Spymac's move to offer more storage is among the first signs that the market is moving toward parity and indicates the relatively low cost of such a move.

Last week, Google shook the industry, when it said it would launch Gmail, a searchable Web-based e-mail service with enough storage to let subscribers keep messages indefinitely. Google plans to support the service by scanning e-mail and then delivering ads related to the content of messages. The initiative flagged a new direction for Google, while it also challenged the norm in the Web e-mail market.

Yahoo and MSN have made few changes to their system interfaces in recent years, but they have sought to charge fees for feature upgrades such as added storage. Yahoo is starting to use storage upgrades in its promotions, advertising price breaks for added disk space. And last week, it sent an e-mail promotion to selected subscribers, giving away 100 megabytes.

April said it's relatively cheap to upgrade members to additional storage from the 25 megabytes it had previously offered. He calculated that it would cost an average of $5 per person for 1 gigabyte of storage; that is, if the member were to use the entire allotted space.

A 1-gigabyte e-mail account can store up to 8 billion bits of data, or the equivalent of 500,000 pages of messages, according to April.

He said the storage allotments will help bring in new members, which will support its paid advertising, professional Web hosting and auction services.

Comments:Membership is now @ the 100,000 mark.
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i am looking forward to googles gmail being open to the public. I use yahoo accounts whenever i sign up for free trials or whatever and even when you just create a new yahoo account you get 1 million spams.

I am hoping that google will have a better system in place.
 
I will not use any outside e-mail account in the near future just because I don't have the need for it and it is very inconvenient to change your e-mail account all the time - you and other people should always keep up with this.

Most importantly, I already have nearly 10 boxes, so I would really, really, really would love to avoid getting a new one. Plus, if you are a host or host your site, don't you like have your own e-mail with, sometimes, more space? And does an average user really need more than 50MB of space to work with? ;)

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Ahh good point! But when you have to sign up to view things like tvguide online to see your local listing, i like to use an account that I dont need to check daily and dont care if it gets spammed to hell!
 
If you don't care about the e-mail service, woudn't going straight to TV guide web site solve the problem? ;)
 
Artashes said:
If you don't care about the e-mail service, woudn't going straight to TV guide web site solve the problem? ;)
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I believe he means that it forces you to sign up. I had to do that too. I wanted to check the listings for that night and they made me give them my name and email address. I did and all they sent was a confirmation email. No spam surprisingly!!
 
Oh, all right, wasn't aware of that. Yeah, I despise such practice of tricking users into signing for services they do not want under threat of not getting the information they wanted to receive initially.
 
I signed up for Spymac, but I don't really use it.. I use my Gmail account more. In case you don't wait until Gmail goes public, you can sign up for 1GB mail for free from Rediff.com, it's an Indian portal similar to Yahoo!, and others.
 
i will have to say, since I started using my gmail everything has been easier, i still haven't got the first spam, like hotmail gets, because spammers just put whatever @ hotmail.com to see if they hit with your email.

gmail is clean, has a lot of nice features that make your life easier + is 1gb of space, so not worry deleting emails
 
Do people really need 1 GB of storage for emails. Why not just use outlook express or something and store the messages on your computer? I think even as high as 50 MB is plenty. But then again, I don't get too much spam and I don't leave my old emails hanging around too long.
 
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