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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I had problems back in the days when I had a DSL account because of limited space in my account on their email server. I was (and am) on some high volume lists, and it was possible for mail to bounce because my Inbox on the server was full before I had a chance to check it if I was traveling. That's one nice thing about GMail. I have 7.5GB of storage and counting, and don't worry about Inbox overflows.
Another is that GMail currently has a 20MB limit on attachment size. That's a mixed blessing for stuff I might send as attachments, because the recipient may use email that can't receive attachments that big. In practice, it's not a problem, as I seldom send attachments, and most are nowhere near that size.
Ouch! 
If that happened over here, I'd expect something like a class action lawsuit against the company. At minimum, they'd be expected to tell you they planned to delete mail in free accounts, and give you an option to preserve it before it went away if you didn't plan to upgrade.
I did have mail in my Yahoo account go away, because I hadn't accessed the account in some time. They did in fact send email warning me it would happen, but they sent it to the Yahoo address I never had cause to look at because I only used it to send things, and did that seldom, so I never saw it till too late.
The only reason I used it at all was to get around the one thing I don't like about GMail: they forbid attachments containing executables. I occasionally need to send someone a program, so this is a problem. To make it more fun, GMail never documented what they considered executables. I had a zip archive containing only HTML and png files bounced, apparently because a user could theoretically click on the downloaded attachment in email to open the zip file, then click on an html file in the archive and open it in a browser, and the HTML might try to do Bad Things.
I didn't lose anything I cared about, so no big deal, but I do now have GMail polling the Yahoo account, Just In Case.
Yahoo wouldn't mind if I upgraded to a paid account, but they offer nothing compelling enough to get me to do it.
Google stores everything in at least three geographically separate locations. I tell anyone that if something happens big enough to interrupt Google's services, I likely have far greater problems than being able to access my mail. 
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Dennis |
A neat and free way out of it is using something like Dropbox that lets you move around and share bigger files.
Another advantage of Google is that I can have as many mail accounts as I want, so that it is easy to have an account for serious things related to my identity and an other/others useful for internet, where I prefer to be anonymous. For instance, to join that Recluse thing that is going on, very well thank *you*, I opened an other one.