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Re: spam

2003-05-27 18:33:11

on 5/27/2003 6:28 PM Vernon Schryver wrote:

Again, if spam costs mail providers much more than $1 or $2/month/user,
then how can free providers offer mailboxes and how can you buy full
Internet service including the use of modem pools or whatever for
$10-$15/month?

In the case of Yahoo and Hotmail, they have free and premium accounts.
They underwrite both services with advertising income. The "cost" for the
free service is the value they have assigned to the ads they display when
you read your mail. The cost for the premium service is that value plus a
little extra.

http://help.msn.com/!data/en_us/data/HMFAQv7.its51/$content$/HM_FAQ_HowMuchEmailStorageSpaceDoIGetWithHotmailUnAuth.htm

| With free MSN Hotmail accounts you receive 2 megabytes (MB) of
| storage space on Hotmail servers for messages and attachments.

| Subscribers to MSN Extra Storage and MSN Internet Services monthly
| subscribers receive 10 MB of Hotmail storage space as well as 30 MB
| of storage space in MSN Groups on which to store and share photos,
| music, and other files.

Yahoo's "free" option is a six-megabyte mailbox. The upgrade options are
at http://billing.mail.yahoo.com/bm/Upgrades and below. Note that there is
 a "Plus" option which is an extra-premium to get rid of their ads.

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