A bit of a misleading title, i expected it to be about the storage limit. Instead it's about something that yahoo itself considers a bug and causes a limit of messages _in one folder_

This article is ridiculous. A few examples:

"We hate to pile on to Yahoo". Translation: We specifically want to pile on Yahoo.

"[the error message] suggested Yahoo might not be following the suggested “best practices” of security experts". Another company that "might not be following the suggested best practices of security experts" is the Wall Street Journal for allowing employees to forward all mail to external accounts.

"Invoking certain mainstream media prerogatives, we sent a sternly worded email to Yahoo's PR department". Translation: I'm really arrogant.

I better stop using Gmail as my catch-all dogpile 'oh information.

all the yahoo loyalist are concerned, because if microsoft takes over then the party of unlimited mails is also over !!! let us hope this doesn't happen ...