Like I needed a reason to hate Hotmail...

[GasX]

Just got this e-mail:

Don?t let your account freeze up!

Did you know that if your account goes over the 2MB storage limit, it will automatically be frozen? That means:
*You won?t be able to send any messages
*All e-mails sent to you will bounce back without notification

Your account will stay frozen until you delete enough e-mail to put you under the 2MB limit. Then, you'll need to keep monitoring it to make sure you stay well under the limit.


:|

 

[BD2003]

Whats so bad about that? Youre told youre given 2Mb of free space. Why should you expect any more?

 

[n0cmonkey]

I got the email too, so what?

 

[punkrawket]

i got it and deleted it to keep from using my 2mb

 

[Lucky]

as much as i hate to do so, im gonna have to subscribe. its only 20/year but i feel dirty. i simply get too many messages (and spam) and now that they are "freezing" accounts its gonna be hard to keep it under 2 megs all the time.

i hate hotmail, but still use them. too much of a PITA because this has been my defacto email addy for years.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

...and that limit has been there for a long time, hasn't it?

 

[luv2chill]

so don't use hotmail. It's their service... plus, what do you expect for free?

Yahoo offers 6MB... use them instead.

and quit yer bitchin'!

l2c

 

[Lucky]

whats bad about it is that when you went over before, they at least kept sending your mail through. With the new policy if some f*ckhead sends you 1000 spam letters or 20-30 of those recent virus emails with attachments, if that takes you over 2 megs you will miss other mail.

 

[b0mbrman]

I got it too...maybe my mailbox wouldn't fill up so fast if they didn't sell my email addy to spammers

 

[Jen]

<< I got it too...maybe my mailbox wouldn't fill up so fast if they didn't sell my email addy to spammers >>





i have to agree...........i am sick of the spam i recieve constantly




Jen

 

[Justin218]

I get absolutely no spam on my hotmail account. My yahoo acount on the other hand... MY GOD. Like 100 a day

 

[LongCoolMother]

i gotz that email too. i download all my old emails into an archive on my hard drive using ms outlook

 

[gopunk]

just fyi, i think this was sent to everybody, and doesn't mean that you were approaching the limit. they don't make this clear (bastards).

 

[AlwaysWong]

At least hotmail didn't accidentally delete all of your old email like Excite did to me.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< I got the email too, so what? >>


n0cmonkey and hotmail????? :Q

just use yahoo....less spam and they arent quite as shady as MS...and pop3 access too...although i personally dont use that...

oh and 6MB vs. 2MB and no flakey over-the-limit policy

 

[n0cmonkey]

<<

<< I got the email too, so what? >>

n0cmonkey and hotmail????? :Qjust use yahoo....less spam and they arent quite as shady as MS...and pop3 access too...although i personally dont use that... oh and 6MB vs. 2MB and no flakey over-the-limit policy >>



Hotmail, yahoo, and for a while britneyspearsmail.com (is that still around?)

I have to have a couple accounts for people I dont want to know my real accounts, for when I cant access a pop server, and for spam.

 

[Hooobi]

If you access your hotmail account through outlook express (automatically) is there a way that you can have it automatically remove messages from the hotmail server once they've been downloaded?

If not, can you do this through outlook express or do you have to log onto hotmail to manually purge stuff?

thanks

H

 

[Mucman]

Hehe, I do my own E-mail hosting and I gave myself a 30M mailbox

 

[Thegonagle]

<< i got it and deleted it to keep from using my 2mb >>

I did too. Sounds good to me.

Hey, it's free, and my email address is not going away if I change ISPs, so I like it.

 

[RSI]

<< If you access your hotmail account through outlook express (automatically) is there a way that you can have it automatically remove messages from the hotmail server once they've been downloaded?

If not, can you do this through outlook express or do you have to log onto hotmail to manually purge stuff?

thanks

H >>

I'm not completely sure about this but I think it does it automatically.

 

[rival]

its free, dont bitch

 

[Ionizer86]

Just use Yahoo! Mail like L2C said I use both, since both boxes are virtually spam-free (even after I've used my Hotmail addy to sign up for random schist.....my Excite mail.....OTOH.........well.......it's horrible )

I prefer Yahoo!, so I use Yahoo! as my main box.

 

[The_Dude8]

are there any free emails that are better than hotmail or yahoo??

 

[murphy55d]

Don't you guys get an email address with your ISP?

 

[SWScorch]

thats why ISP emails are the best