Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Yahoo Mail Popped Instead of Pumped.

Yahoo Chokes Upon Offering Additional User Storage:
"Yahoo Inc., which on Tuesday meant to pump up users' free e-mail accounts to 100MB, popped instead.

On the morning of its splashy debut, Yahoo users were greeted with notices of the upgrade, which boosted standard accounts from 4MB of e-mail storage to 100MB.

However, the vastly popular e-mail service was sluggish, if it worked at all. Starting Tuesday morning, users began complaining about the site's groggy response time—if, in fact, they could even get the www.yahoo.com site to load at all.

Predictably enough, postings on Slashdot show that Yahoo users are looking the gift horse in the mouth."

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1612683,00.asp?kc=ewnws061504dtx1k0000599

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