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View Poll Results: Should Hotmail improve their serive as mentioned in the "boycott" post? | |||
Yes, they should stop being so mean | 18 | 33.96% | |
Does it really matter? Hotmail's a free service anyway | 19 | 35.85% | |
I don't use Hotmail | 16 | 30.19% | |
Voters: 53. You may not vote on this poll |
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11 Oct 2002, 05:04 AM | #16 |
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it's all relative
I didn't use Hotmail before MicroSoft. So I don't know what the service was like. Probably, back then it was the best thing around. I suspect that the service is probably even better now. The problem is that other players have passed Hotmail. It's not going backwards so much as losing it's lead.
Also, I don't think that we can blame Microsoft for the spam. The service is a victim of it's own "popularity". It's easy for spammers to send mail to random addresses and hit something. Of course, it is arguable how fervently they deal with spam. My objection, as with any Microsoft product, is how the operating system is geared towards herding you into Microsoft applications. Arguably, Hotmail/MSN should not be the only choice for people setting up Outlook Express for the first time. |
11 Oct 2002, 05:44 AM | #17 | |
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If I were to post a photo album in the South Bay Activity Club MSN group, that would be counted towards my storage as a member and would have no bearing on the Managers' storage quota. Again, hotmail email associated with MSN groups is mutually exclusive. |
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11 Oct 2002, 06:38 AM | #18 |
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One More time!
Original subcribers of Hotmail Extra Storage first switched over to the new MSN Extra Storage were given 10MB of personal Hotmail storage and 30MB of storage if they created a club account. This was given as a reward for a change in service level following a price increase. I do know what storage limits I have. They may no longer give this to new members, but I do have it for my group.
To repeat, for original subscribers the two WERE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE! COMPRENDE?! This was an advantage given members who signed up in November of last year. Last edited by admiralu : 11 Oct 2002 at 06:42 AM. |
11 Oct 2002, 06:48 AM | #19 |
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oki doki arti choki
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11 Oct 2002, 09:47 AM | #20 |
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lol
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11 Oct 2002, 12:30 PM | #22 | |
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(Equal Email Opportunity Commission). But in all seriousness, it's not predudice, it's my experience with hotmail users. In fact, I've once considered putting on my web page regarding password requests that I will not respond to hotmail users - with no exceptions. The likelihood of my legitimate email being filtered into the junk-mail folder is significant enough and the unreliability of hotmail has had numerous occasions of hotmail users telling me they have not received my messages. I have not had this problem with any other email service. When I send an email to a hotmail user, the reliability that my email will be viewed by the recipient is far from 100%. Last edited by FromLine : 11 Oct 2002 at 12:36 PM. |
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11 Oct 2002, 12:49 PM | #23 |
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I have the same thoughts whenever I see an @hotmail.com.
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12 Oct 2002, 05:27 AM | #26 | |
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12 Oct 2002, 05:46 AM | #28 |
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I've never had a problem with Hotmail. It's not my main account, I only check it once every other day or so. It is a 5-characters address and I rarely get spam, perhaps only one or two messages a week. One time I couldn't get on my account because the server was busy. Oh well.
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