I have been a faithful yahoo user for more than 20 years. Just recently, yahoo has decided to lock down my account not allowing me to send or receive emails, stating that I had to remove emails in order to free up space and reactivate my account. Since then I have deleted between 3500 and 4000 emails and removed them from trash. This amounts to 20 to 25 k or more of memory that I have freed up. I know this because I have watched the total memory used in my inbox fall by that amount. Despite this, the message above on my mail page states "Your mailbox is full and can't send or receive messages. Add more storage or free up at least 4 GB. To make sure you don't lose anything we can help you download your data."

I cannot free up 4 GB of memory as I am only currently using 258K.

If yahoo does not wish to conduct business with me anymore I will choose a different mail service to host my email. I am disappointed that my loyalty to yahoo is being rewarded by trying to force me to pay for email service that has always been provided for free. Yahoo has benefitted from my use of their service but I will be happy to take my email service elsewhere if yahoo does not wish to maintain my use of their service.