POLL: Purchasing webspace at Hotmail.

[j0lly]

Please read if Hotmail is your primary email service.

I know that Hotmail is notorious for spam and its limited storage space (2MB). But, these things aside, would you purchase additional space at Hotmail? I recieved this email today:

Dear kartickn:
We are writing to let you know that your account has exceeded its current 2.00MB account size limit. Here's what you can do:


Purchase MSN Hotmail Extra Storage...upgrade to a 10MB Inbox for just $12.95* per year! Subscribe to this offer to get an extra 8MB added to your current 2MB Inbox?increasing your overall storage to five times what you have today. It?s perfect for storing attachments, pictures, and important e-mails. Click here to learn more!
*plus applicable taxes
Delete some messages so you are under your current account size limit of 2.00MB.
Your account can hold up to 2.00MB. If the messages in your account exceed this limit on Oct 27 2001, some of your messages will be deleted. Even if you delete some messages today, any messages you may receive by that date will be included in your total account size, so it is best to get your total as low as you can. One good strategy for lowering your account size is to focus on messages with attachments, as they tend to be the largest in size.

Hotmail.com users:
To determine the size of your account, click Manage Folders from within the Inbox. The total size of your account is shown at the bottom of the Folders List.

MSN Explorer users:
To determine the size of your account, go to your E-mail Inbox. Click Show Folders and then click on the Organize Folders link. The total for your MSN Hotmail Folders is shown at the bottom of the "Folders on MSN" list.

As an MSN Explorer user, you don't have to delete messages to free up space. Instead, you can move them to the folders listed under "Folders on My Computer", which don't count against your limit.

Total size of your account: 2.15MB

Please do not reply to this alias as it is unmonitored. For more information about account size, please send a blank e-mail message to acctsize@hotmail.com.

Regards,
MSN Staff

 

[wedi42]

no, just change services
try yahoo

 

[Blayze]

no

 

[wfay]

ok call me a retard if you want but........ i got that email myself and at the time was expecting an important and potentially large email attachment later on that same day, so i went ahead and paid the $13...... decent deal @ $2/mo for 10megs, don't really care about the money...... could have also just switched over to yahoo (free 6megs) but then its a hassle to get people to send to new email address......

anyways, i really like the outlook express integration w/hotmail, so it was worth the $13 to me.....

just my 2c
wayne

 

[monto]

i get way too much spam at hotmail, the junk mail filters aren't effective anymore

prefer yahoo myself

 

[wedi42]

<< ok call me a retard if you want but........ i got that email myself and at the time was expecting an important and potentially large email attachment later on that same day, so i went ahead and paid the $13...... decent deal @ $2/mo for 10megs, don't really care about the money...... could have also just switched over to yahoo (free 6megs) but then its a hassle to get people to send to new email address......

anyways, i really like the outlook express integration w/hotmail, so it was worth the $13 to me.....

just my 2c
wayne >>



you're a retard

 

[datalink7]

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