Yahoo Mail goes unlimited --- could it really be unlimited?

TechCrunch is reporting that Yahoo will announce in the coming days that they have removed all caps on storage within Yahoo Mail. Currently Gmail caps storage at 2.8 gig.  Mike notes, "I spoke with Yahoo’s Vice President of Mail, John Kremer, this afternoon about the announcement. He says the new storage limits (or rather lack of a limit) affect all Yahoo mail users, not just users of the new beta product.

"Users are subject to Yahoo’s abuse policies, which requires users to follow “normal email practices” and not engage in activities like using Yahoo mail for basic online storage (a number of services have popped up to help people use Gmail for this purpose)."

So basically they are saying, "You can store as much mail as you want, but you can't store files." So for example, each morning I have my server email me a backup file (about 10mb), can I store 500 of these? 1000 of these? Or do these count as "online storage" ?

The Yahoo blog is clear; it is for "email message storage" -- so I guess my backup files should be fine. Don't expect to use it as a FTP site for your Lindsay Lohan pics or weemee icons.

Also, as we have learned so many times with internet access, is unlimited really unlimited? I love Yahoo Mail, have used it since day 1 and really enjoy using it over Gmail. I look forward to the storage cap removal.

(now place your bets on how long until Gmail counters. I give it 2.5 days)