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by avar 4155 days ago
Most of the competition deserved to die. At the time 10-50MB mailboxes were normal, and Google came out with 1GB (and counting!) from day one, along with a much better UI than everyone else, and kick-ass spam filters.

Nobody's done much more than reach parity with GMail since then, so there's been no big incentive to switch back.