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Netscape Webmail free accounts jump to 250MB

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By Fernando Cassia
Wed Oct 20 2004, 07:59
INTERWEB PORTAL Netscape.com suffered a sudden awakening today and realised that the e-mail storage wars were already unfolding. So it apparently decided to do something about it. I was shocked today when I saw my online webmail storage increased from the usual paltry five megabytes to a whopping 250MB.

This applies to the free Netscape Webmail accounts (bearing the format username@netscape.net), which you can sign up for here, and which gives you a free AIM "Screen Name" as well.

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It's still a quarter of what Gmail offers, but not bad, considering that you get pseudo-IMAP access from the Netscape 7.2's e-mail client (based on the Mozilla 1.7x suite)

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Do not confuse the free @netscape.net webmail accounts with the paid Netscape-branded dial-up ISP, which provides email accounts ending in @netscape.com.

We'll be awaiting the official confirmation of this storage increase from the Corporation. We'd hate to hear that this was only an "error" like in Gmail's terabyte- storage gaffe earlier this year. µ

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