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You could pay them $50 a year for your e-mail: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN15967.html https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN15967.html Doesn't seem worth it to me, but
by skuhn 11y ago
You could pay them $50 a year for your e-mail: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN15967.html https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN15967.html
Doesn't seem worth it to me, but it isn't that expensive in the grand scheme of things. If it makes you feel better about paying them, at least circa 2012, only users on paid mail farms had their mail data backed up. Everyone else's mail was not ever backed up (although each farm has a dedicated Netapp Filer which provides operational redundancy).
- username223 11y agoThanks for the link. $50/yr is overpriced for IMAP hosting, but it's good to know that they at least offer the service.
- skuhn 11y agoThe maddening thing is that they used to offer Mail Plus for $20/yr, and it was eliminated in favor of providing those features to all users (good idea). So this new paid plan is much more expensive and offers much less value. It also seems kind of hard to believe that Yahoo makes $50/yr off of ads per user. They certainly are not pulling that in across the hundreds of millions of mail accounts they claim to have. Since Yahoo is getting the money up front and without the work and risk of selling ads, I would actually expect it to be priced at a discount versus what Yahoo would see from ad revenue.
- brongondwana 11y agoOr you could pay us $40/year for your email: https://www.fastmail.com/signup/personal.html https://www.fastmail.com/signup/personal.html and be buying from a team which is just focused on email. (and yes, we back up everyone's email)
- skuhn 11y agoAgreed. I wish e-mail (and many other services) wasn't a "free" offering from diversified players. I think pure play businesses who gasp charge enough to make a living and a profit based solely on their product's direct value are very appealing.