[brahamt]

Yesterday, as I have my Yahoo mail up, all of a sudden the screen refreshes and I have a completely new web page. Most of the ads are gone, and the buttons have a 3D look to them. I have the paid service, but this was my free one. So I checked my paid account, and I got the following email:

Dear Yahoo! Mail Plus Subscriber,

Thanks for subscribing to Yahoo! Mail Plus. It's our goal to offer you an email experience that makes it easy to stay in touch and offers great value. Periodically, we make changes to enhance the service for our users. As of June 15, 2004, you'll enjoy the following benefits at no additional charge:
Increase in your storage quota to 2GB
No graphical ads
A streamlined interface that's even easier to use
You will continue to access your Yahoo! Mail account as usual. No further action is required, and there will be no interruption of your service. At the end of your current billing cycle, unless you cancel before that date, your Mail Plus service will auto-renew at $19.99/year*. For more information, please click here.

Sincerely,
The Yahoo! Mail Team

Not free as gmail is, but no advertising. Then I noticed that I got 100MB on my free account.

Not bad, considering I did not have to do anything.