Hotmail is leading itself into the dark abyss ...

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kuk

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I guess everyone is pretty familiar with the changes going through Hotmail. Firstly, the imense amount of spam has plagued users for years now. Then account size was crippled to 2MB. Then service for checking POP accounts was removed.

... and now outgoing attachments are crippled to 512Kb.:|

Am I the only one seeing that Hotmail, with all these restrictions, may be loosing a large community of members in the months to come? I know that the money-drought has plagued many other freemail sites (i.e. Yahoo, Lycos, USA.net), but Hotmail, backed up by the all-mighty Microsoft, is going way too far, severely crippling usability.

Post here in this thread other e-mail sites that still offer a decent service. I'll add my contribution with MyRealBox. Throughout the years, it has been really reliable: supports POP and (surprisingly) IMAP, 10MB of space with WebMail and software client access ... with absolutely no spam.

Kuk :)
 
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amnesiac

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You know, for like $2 a year you could get a basic hosting account with Cyberwings and they give you unlimited email accounts. :)
 
GasX

GasX

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why does everyone think they disabled pop3? They just moved the button.

(It still blows...)
 
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TranceNation

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Microsoft's plan:
send loads of spam to users to fill their mailbox, then send the users a note saying they need more mail space and can get it for $xxx a year.
 
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Linflas

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The sole reason I have a hotmail address is for all those places that want an email address that I don't want to have my real email address. As long as it serves that purpose I really don't care what they do.
 
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coolred

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I have noticed this to, my hotmail is starting to annoy me, as I have to check it every day or it will be full becuase of all the spam. I can get a few hundred messages a day of which I usually delete 299 of or sometimes all of them. So I was thinking of using my yahoo account more now, but while checking yahoo, I noticed it seems you have to pay them in order to be able to use outlook express to check your mail, is this true?
 
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MaxDSP

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Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0
You know, for like $2 a year you could get a basic hosting account with Cyberwings and they give you unlimited email accounts. :)
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I have 2 cyberwings accounts and the only reason I have 2 hotmail accounts also is because Ive had them for almost 4 years. If I closed those hotmail accounts now, people would still email those even after I tell them not to. Ive tried so many times to get everyone to email me to my earthlink address, but they still keep using the hotmail accounts.
 
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halik

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i've never used hotmail for this exact reason. It makes a geat porn collector and thats about it, i can't figure out why people keep using it. There are tons of free email providers out there (with pop), wo why stick with hotmail?
 
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Alex

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I just found about the 512kb attachmnt limit when i needed to send an important work-related file i'd been working on last night to my office this morning... :| :|

the thing is, despite all of the faults, i love the hotmail interface and no other free webail service has this kinda thing goin on, like address books and groups and whatnot...

edit: cant spell
 
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nord1899

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Originally posted by: kuk

Post here in this thread other e-mail sites that still offer a decent service. I'll add my contribution with MyRealBox. Throughout the years, it has been really reliable: supports POP and (surprisingly) IMAP, 10MB of space with WebMail and software client access ... with absolutely no spam.

Kuk :)
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Yeah I use MyRealBox too. Been using for over a year now. Its pretty damn good, but not quite perfect. It does have occasional downtime where I can't access it using POP. But then again, for a free service, with web and POP access, I can't really complain much.

And I have yet to receive one peice of spam over there. Granted I never ever give out that address to anyone but close friends, but Yahoo! accounts and the like just seem to get picked up regardless.
 
StageLeft

StageLeft

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My biggest annoyance is the spam. I can't leave them cause everyone knows/has my hotmail.
 
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Dooling37

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Ditto MyRealBox -- I think I originally found out about it from ATOT.
Worked great for me since then.
 
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singh

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
My biggest annoyance is the spam. I can't leave them cause everyone knows/has my hotmail.
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That's the same problem I have. But, I am planning to rectify the situation by developing my own spam filter program. I've seen a LOT of the same spam over and over again.. those will be filtered out 100%.
 
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ucdnam

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"...no address books and groups..."
If you try Yahoo, you'd notice that they have an address book, groups, calendar, finances that integrate with your financial accts, configurable from page that can list movie listings for my selected theatres, sports scores for the teams I want to follow, weather for my city, tv listings for my cable, etc...

A greater benefit is that you can sync yahoo calendar, address book, notes, and email with your pda and/or email client (outlook).

You can allow select people to see your calendar, what to see ,etc.. and all of this is free.. I don't see why people still use Microsoft. I have a hotmail account, but it's virtually useless because of all the spam I receive.
 
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NetworkDad

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Getting your own domain name is the way to go. It's cheap, unlimited storage (within reason), and you never have to change your address again.
 
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RossMAN

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Originally posted by: NccOps
Getting your own domain name is the way to go. It's cheap, unlimited storage (within reason), and you never have to change your address again.
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I agree. That's what I did, when you can register your own domain for under $10 per year (GoDaddy.com or Namecheap.com) and get hosting for less than $5 per month (Dixiesys.com) then it makes sense to get your own domain with your very own whatever@whatever.com e-mail address.
 
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Ganryu

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I don't like the changes to hotmail either but you guys are forgetting that its a *FREE* service... Microsoft is not obligated to provide anything... apparently you guys don't remember the days when the only way to have email was to work in the industry or pay compuserve or aol for access..
 
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Ludacris

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My Hotmail used to get ass loads of SPAM until I turned on the Exclusive E-Mail Filter under Hotmail options. I just gave it a list of email addresses that I wanted to get through the filter and that did away with my spam problem.

Hotmail still sucks though.
 
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