Wonder why or how these web-based email servers came up to offer you MORE. Well, I have my own start off with email. I remember having an email account in hotmail.com. My uncle created one and said, this is your email ID, and with this, you can send and receive emails in the Internet. Hotmail.com?… Internet?…. email ID?… all I knew at the age of 13 was GW BASIC and computer, keyboard, printer… etc.,. Time just swept away, and now I feel, snail mail?… (just kidding).

So, let me not drive you to Alaska, the 1 GB flair probably started off with Gmail, but I’m afraid, there was one earlier expansion slot, done at Sify mail. It was a very limited-time-based offer. Whoever logged into Sify mail account, had a flashy link towards the end of the navigation bar, clicking on which, the user is upgraded for a 15 MB space for FREE!! – too late, you can simply see that for a cash exchange (hehe). Then came Gmail, with a hefty container of 1 GB, offering to those *lucky* ones (as it claims and as it is even now felt). And the services of the email from Google are really awesome. They came last, but stole the entire show. As soon as Gmail swirled the Internet, it was then Rediff,com with Rediffmail, to give their share of 1 GB (FREE!!). Yahoo! gave away its share of an 100 MB. Simultaneously, it was Lycos Mail to upgrade their interface and supplement their services, with more of a user-centered design approaches. – Lycos, haven’t yet participated in the expansion programs, but their service upgrade for the existing 6 MB is COOL. Finally, or in the end of the pack, it is Hotmail.com. Their press report declares that Hotmail would join this ‘mail run’ by expanding the existing 2 MB free space to 250 MB!!!. That, I would really call *the* best move. [More info on hotmail.com 250 MB.]

Though, it might just be 250 MB, the ease of accessing all of these mails through Outlook Express is *the* mind soothing offer, I could ever have. Psst: if this happened in the very near future, I’d be zapping my emails with a 5750 MB space.