Gigantic mailboxes

Just as Gmail shows signs of emerging from beta, Yahoo! has promised to match the famous 1GB of storage on offer from the Googlers. Within a month, Yahoo! mailboxes will be upgraded from the current 250MB to the magic one-gig.

It pisses all over the paltry 2MB which Hotmail persists with this side of the big pond - despite promises made last summer that every user would get substantially more storage in a staggered upgrade. However, you can get a 250MB Hotmail mailbox if you sign up for a new address and lie that you are in the United States. But you wouldn't do that, would you?