Hotmailers beware

[fodders]

I know a lot use Hotmail so they should consider the news of change in policy
A STORM is brewing at Hotmail after its policy on spam (unsolicited email) suddenly changed overnight. The world's biggest email firm spectacularly failed to tell users it had signed everybody up to receive tons more irritating marketing messages. Instead, Hotmail's owner, Microsoft, secretly added three new tick-boxes to every single user's profile.
Two of them - "Share my email address'' and "Share my other registration information" - are already ticked, the other: "Share myfirst and last names'' has been - graciously - left blank.

This means Hotmail's 118 million users (7 million in the UK) will be inundated with even more spam abuse, beyond that which already floods hard-to-manage Hotmail accounts.

Why it didn't tell customers of this beggars belief, given Hotmail promises users it "will not share your email address with business partners" and "none of your personally identifiable information is shared with the third party websites''.

It can only be one thing: a cynical ploy to stuff more spam into inboxes that have a limit of 2 megabytes - so users are forced to upgrade their accounts to the paid-for service ($19.95 a year for 10 megabytes of extra storage space).

Thankfully, there is one way around this: change your settings or protest by closing your account, reminding Microsoft that consumers hold the power.

The less people use Hotmail, the less money Microsoft will get through advertising. To change your settings back, go into "options", then "personal profile", scroll down to the bottom and un-tick the boxes.

[nxn]

well since they broke the rules to their own agreement couldn't someone do something legally about it?

[fodders]

Heheheheh legally and Microsoft , oxymoron spring to mind?

[Weedster]

Thankfully my settings were never set to that in the firs place ;)

I've been spam-free since I registered there.

[Zaldron]

I JUST KNEW IT.

I felt it. After months of having the perfect block sender list, suddenly crap starts flooding inside my inbox once again. Goddamn I would move to another mail but my whole life is arranged around this one.

[fodders]

I think the point is, they have changed your settings, and ticked 2 new boxes saying you do want spam, so spam free may not last

[IMJack]

Is there something about Seattle and the Redmond Barrens that makes all the evil empires gather there? Microsoft, Nintendo, Starbucks, Wizards of the Coast... the list goes on. Maybe it's something in the water.

[stphrz]

Yes indeed. The big corporations always screw the little guy. They provide us with free email accounts, free space on their servers, they don't charge us for the bandwidth of accessing our free accounts and downloading attatchments. They even give us a choice as to whether they will give out our email address (which they have provided for free) to advertisers. We bitch when they try to make some money (by giving us free accounts). They must pay our way we say! They must give us hd space and bandwidth for free! Their attempts to balance the books a little are evil! Tell me how in the name of caramel coated sweet black baby jesus that is a good economic equation?

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[Lüt]

stphrz said:

Tell me how in the name of caramel coated sweet black baby jesus that is a good economic equation?

The provider is a company whose president made a single donation of $7 billion to a charity one day, they HAVE that kind of money to blow.

[stphrz]

Lüt said:

The provider is a company whose president made a single donation of $7 billion to a charity one day, they HAVE that kind of money to blow.

Remember charity is not an entitlement. They are not obligated to give it, you are not entitled to recieve it. Just because I have over $17,000 in the bank doesn't mean I have to give you any :P

[Zaldron]

stphrz said:

$17,000

You can buy my city.

[fodders]

I think the only thing of any concern is, you signed up to Hotmail, (I never did) but you did, they said they would not give your details etc out, that's fine, the point is they have altered your account, without your knowledge, and added 2 boxes they have ticked, saying you want spam mmmmm bad or not?

[Zaldron]

VERY BAD. But I can't think of a good way to fight the system.

[Lüt]

stphrz said:

Remember charity is not an entitlement.

That's why the US needs me as dictator, none of that "I don't have to" shit from moneygrubbers.

Zaldron said:

But I can't think of a good way to fight the system.

BURN IT!

[Zaldron]

AYE AYE SIR

/me grabs the deodorant and a lighter.

SIR WHERE TO, SIR?

[Naked Snake]

Zaldron said:

AYE AYE SIR

/me grabs the deodorant and a lighter.

SIR WHERE TO, SIR?

Um...unless you mean spray deodorant, nowhere. Bah, hairspray is better.

[Zaldron]

Um...unless you mean spray deodorant, nowhere. Bah, hairspray is better.

Of course its spray. I don't like the useless version.

[Naked Snake]

Zaldron said:

Of course its spray. I don't like the useless version.

The rub-on destinkafier (not a real word) rules!

[Zaldron]

If you want to glue your arm against your armpit, then yeah...

[Naked Snake]

Zaldron said:

If you want to glue your arm against your armpit, then yeah...

That doesn't happen to me...maybe it is because I don't live in a country where the low is 89 degrees...

[999cop]

I dumped my hotmail account for about a year now and it stays buried nicely by far.

[magikal]

stphrz said:

Remember charity is not an entitlement. They are not obligated to give it, you are not entitled to recieve it. Just because I have over $17,000 in the bank doesn't mean I have to give you any :P

Morally they ARE obligated to give it,they are obligated to give much more,but they never will.Oh,and how many lives do you think $17,000 would save?

[GooberMan]

NOW does everyone hate Microsoft yet? :P

[deadnail]

When Yahoo mail changed their shit around and automagically signed you up for spam they at least had the courtesy to send you an email to which you could change the settings.

[Fredrik]

Create 100 Hotmail accounts and sign up for all gay porn and spam mailing lists you can find just to abuse their sorry bandwidth and processor power.

[Erik]

I knew something like this was happening... no spam for years and suddenly I start getting porn adds and other shit on a daily basis.

[magikal]

Fredrik said:

Create 100 Hotmail accounts and sign up for all gay porn and spam mailing lists you can find just to abuse their sorry bandwidth and processor power.

Excellent idea!

[Searcher]

Thanks, for the heads up.

Those bastards!!!

I was pissed when Yahoo did it recently but now Hotmail.

We better watch for all our email agents to try it.

[magikal]

Erik said:

I knew something like this was happening... no spam for years and suddenly I start getting porn adds and other shit on a daily basis.

Yeah,this just promotes and makes it easier for kids to access porn also,it's shoved right down their necks from the outset as a result...You know how easy it is for anybody to open a Hotmail account,all the kids I know have at least one.Simply irresponsible on their part.

[darknation]

An email account assosiated with microsoft? Don't think i'll bother thanks, MS has always been fond of bent buisness practices.

Your ISP should provide you with an email account, use that. And your ISP can't aford to piss you off, especially if you are paying for their services.

I've not had one spam email with my freeserve address from day one.