fodders Posted September 28, 2004 Millions of Hotmail users face having to pay to access their messages using the Outlook e-mail program. Microsoft says it decided to start charging for the service as it was being abused by senders of spam. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lord FlatHead Posted September 28, 2004 mail.yahoo.com. 100MB of storage, 10MB attachments, and still free ATM. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted September 28, 2004 Lord FlatHead said:mail.yahoo.com. 100MB of storage, 10MB attachments, and still free ATM. Except you can't access it from anything but the web interface. Which is what we're talking about. 0 Share this post Link to post
Job Posted September 28, 2004 fodders said:Microsoft says it decided to start charging for the service as it was being abused by senders of spam. That makes zero sense. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bloodshedder Posted September 28, 2004 Arioch said:Except you can't access it from anything but the web interface.http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/ 0 Share this post Link to post
S1lent Posted September 28, 2004 Not to mention all the security flaws and risks of using a Yahoo Hotmail account.. But, if Microsoft starts charging, I suppose I'll end up using a Y! account. 0 Share this post Link to post
The Flange Peddler Posted September 28, 2004 Microsoft are not starting to charge. Though unless you read the link it's obvious how you can be mislead to think that from the thread title. They are just starting to charge if you don't use the Hotmail Web interface, and instead have your hotmail straight through to outlook or outlook express. I'm definitely no fan of Microsoft, but the current free Hotmail product, with 250MB storage and 10MB attachments, is pretty good as far as I'm concerned. 0 Share this post Link to post
Snarboo Posted September 28, 2004 The Article said:Other e-mail services such as Yahoo and America Online also limit access to mail exporting tools to paid subscribers. Surprised nobody noticed that little bit. Seems Hotmail isn't the first to use this tactic. 0 Share this post Link to post
darknation Posted September 28, 2004 so you have to pay to use outlook 'comedy virus interface' express. Brilliant. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted September 28, 2004 ein Internet, ein Betriebssystem, eine Welt unter Bill Gates heh, i use my standard email account so i am not worried. I get minimal spam, if any, so i dont need seperate email. however if i did i would just fall back on my admin@mvras.org account. Honestly i think microsoft is screwing itself. I dont hate them but i don't like them. they have done good and bad like every other company. Only time will tell. Let us watch what is coming, i am sure we will be surprised. Heh, i think wierd when i am druged. been horribly sick the last few days and have gone 2 days with no sleep. oh and i had been watching documentaries on hitler, the nazis and squirrels. did you know the common grey squirrle can live for as much as 17 years? however most live around 12 years, the length of time the 3rd rich lasted. 0 Share this post Link to post
myk Posted September 28, 2004 Makes sense, really; free MSN Hotmail is ad-financed, and you don't get ads on Outlook or OE. Plus those two programs are kind of dying with POP3 anyway... many big providers shun the protocol and using a browser's just as good for web-based e-mail. 0 Share this post Link to post
leileilol Posted September 29, 2004 fodders said:Millions of Hotmail users face having to pay to access their messages using the Outlook e-mail program. Microsoft says it decided to start charging for the service as it was being abused by senders of spam. Then again Yahoo charged others when they put an end to their free POP3 too. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted September 29, 2004 Bloodshedder said:http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/ And there's the equivalent for Hotmail out there already. No big deal. 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted September 29, 2004 I used to use outlook exclusively until i woke up and smelt webmail. 0 Share this post Link to post
Goliath Posted September 29, 2004 Doesn't really matter, I already pay for hotmail mainly just because I need more than the 2mb that they give you to start out. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted September 29, 2004 i dont see what people have aginst useing their standard ISP email, unless you are AOL. mine doesn't get any spam, mainly cause i dont use it on spam causeing stuff and i have entirly cut spyware out 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted September 29, 2004 Sephiroth said:i dont see what people have aginst useing their standard ISP email, unless you are AOL. mine doesn't get any spam, mainly cause i dont use it on spam causeing stuff and i have entirly cut spyware out The whole point is so that you're not tied to the ISP. If you need to hop ISPs then you don't have to go through a big process on moving people to using another e-mail address to contact you. 0 Share this post Link to post
spank Posted October 2, 2004 On the issue of accessing Hotmail through an email client, is there any way to use Thunderbird with it? What's that piece of software Arioch mentioned? 0 Share this post Link to post
NiGHTMARE Posted October 2, 2004 deathbringer said:People still use Outlook? The worst products are usually the ones which are the most commonly used. You really ought to know that by now :). 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted October 4, 2004 spank said:On the issue of accessing Hotmail through an email client, is there any way to use Thunderbird with it? What's that piece of software Arioch mentioned? No. Apparently, both Hotmail and Yahoo have things set up that prevent you from using third party e-mail clients with them. I downloaded Thunderbird and tried it with both and nether wanted to work. Since those are the only two real e-mail accounts I have, I had to delete Thunderbird in defeat. :( 0 Share this post Link to post