Lycos Offers new E-mail Service, with 3GB to Boot
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Lycos announced today that their new e-mail service, which is currently in beta testing, will offer 3GB of storage and allow the size of attachments sent and received to be unlimited - All for free. If you're willing to dish out $20 per year, you can bump that storage cap to 5GB (This will also remove all the advertisements, which are currently Google AdSense ads). To prevent use just for sending large files infrequently, there is a stipulation that mail accounts that go unused for 30 days will be deleted (However, you can avoid this fate by paying an additional $6 per year). Upping the storage amount and attachment sizes might interest people that often work with multi-media files, since they usually require large amounts of storage.Can this new offering from Lycos take out other popular storage-focused e-mail services, such as Google's Gmail, or Yahoo! Mail (The closed beta version currently offers 2GB, as well as Live Mail, which is also in closed beta testing). Gmail, which currently offers 2.75GB of storage, might be the better choice because of the good use of integration with other Google services, such as Google Talk. Gmail's use of tabbed conversations, as well as the ability to view a wide variety of HTML files might be the better choice. But, as always, the e-mail wars continue.
Comments
Hey if you're going to straight up lift language from my post, how about a goddmaned link?
By 
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8/02/2006 05:28:00 PM
Interesting, to bad they have that 30 day rule. It's nice to see a new competitor on the block though.
By 
Austin Murphy, at
8/02/2006 08:08:00 PM
@ Marshall (Assuming that this is Marshall Kirkpatrick from TechCrunch): If you must know Marshall, I first read about this news from Gary Price, and used his website and the press release issued by Lycos for my research - Not TechCrunch. I'm surprised that someone of you editorial worth would go as low as to publicly defame my writing (Ever heard of send an e-mail? Apparently, Michael Arrington has) and then swearing on my blog asking for a link. Not very caring or considerate. Remember, drinking and blogging don't mix ;-).
@ Austin Murphy: Agreed. I'm always happy when I see a company make headlines (Especially ones that have been very quite recently) - And I'm sure that this new offering from Lycos is sure to appeal many. If you're looking for even more free storage, I suggest you try out 30Gigs, a service that offers 30GB of storage for free (More information and screenshots here).
