Hotmail blocks Flickr invites!

[Gl4di4tor]

I can't believe it, I've been trying to invite family and friends to view my photos but everyone with a hotmail account says they haven't recieved the email but everybody else who doesn't have a hotmail account has recieved it. Wow, anyone else notice this?

 

[TallBill]

nope, use gmail.

 

[Gl4di4tor]

i use gmail but the people i'm trying to invite don't.

 

[TallBill]

Send them gmail invites. Welcome them to 2005.

 

[Gl4di4tor]

I did send a few gmail invites, but c'mon how could M$ do something like this. Its ridiculous, their obviously doing this to prevent people using Yahoos Flickr site.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Gl4di4tor
I did send a few gmail invites, but c'mon how could M$ do something like this. Its ridiculous, their obviously doing this to prevent people using Yahoos Flickr site.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

As RossMAN says, you get what you pay for.

 

[yllus]

It's not MS's fault, I believe. Flickr sends e-mails from e-mail addresses not from their system so people are more liable to click and open them, instead of believing they're being spammed.

Example: You ask Flickr to send out an invite to bob@hotmail.com. Flickr's software takes the e-mail address you have on file, dude@somewhere.com, and modifies the e-mail header to say that it's from your name and your e-mail address. Problem is, e-mail servers have gotten smarter. You often can't fake an e-mail sender address like that and get away with it. A lot of it gets flagged down, rightly so, as spam.

This is what Flickr used to do. I'm not bored enough to look into it and see if this is indeed still a problem.

 

[Gl4di4tor]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: Gl4di4tor
I did send a few gmail invites, but c'mon how could M$ do something like this. Its ridiculous, their obviously doing this to prevent people using Yahoos Flickr site.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

As RossMAN says, you get what you pay for.

Great job thinking for yourself and being original. :disgust: