I am SO SICK of the outages over at NOTmail. Every time I try to log in and check my email lately, there’s some lame-ass excuse why I can’t. Ever since Microsoft bought them they’ve been pissing me off.
It’s free… and I want my money back.
Well, go use another service, like yahoo mail.
And that thread title… that’s bad.
I’ve been with hotmail since 1996 and have noticed a considerable amount of disturbances since Microsoft bought it. I can’t stand not getting to my account all day. I never had these problems before. now the reason I stay with them is because they are accessible from all computers and my palm 7. also I have been with them so long and have a few great username’s. And try to get anyone to help you with your account. It is impossible. They always refer you to other email addesses. :rolleyes:
I’ve had good luck with Mail.com I like em. They’re nice, and they have a wide variety of mail addresses available.
I use notmail strictly for junk mail. Use Yahoo mostly. Lycos is also pretty good.
Actually I just knew based on my hotmail account that he was refering to the amount of XXX crap mail I’m always receiving.
Man, I feel guilty. My Hotmail problems are few and far between…
Maybe it’s 'cuz I send them chocolate every month…?
Hate them! Hate them, hate them, hate them!
The worst thing is that twice now, the S.O. has tried to log into her hotmail account and has been rerouted to some Microsoft Passport for Kiddies page where she is asked to either get an adult to help her fill out some forms, or proove she is an adult by typing in a valid credit card number!
What the fuck?? She has been using this service for years! In fact, that’s the only reason she’s still using it - too many people used to that address.
On my end, I get really annoyed at the arbitrariness of Hotmail URLs.
The following must all be in my cookie allow list for a successful login to occur.
hotmail.msn.com
hotmail.passport.com
hotmail.com
as well as, from time to time, a numeric IP that seems to get into their URL strings just for fun. The list keeps growing…
And remember the time the dumbasses wrote a script that allowed you to log into any Hotmail account, so long as you went to the right Hotmail machine by numeric IP?
Ummm… I haven’t had any problems with mine. At least not for the last year or so. Maybe they’re just out to get you. I wouldn’t put it past the tricky bastards.
You haven’t had any problems with them and you use a block list to allow cookies only from selected sites?
Or are you one of those trusting people who’s every move on the web is tracked by half a dozen ad agencies?
I gave up on hotmail when they couldn’t do fancy backgrounds.
I am so tired of straight ascii.
I want fonts and colors and images and bolding,
and I want them to be easier. I get all that with Outlook.
Plus, Outlook is 100 times faster, and you can get all your messages retrieved while you’re doing something else.
I have no desire ever to return to webbased email, except when traveling, and that hasn’t even come up yet.
Reasons for using web based mail (not hotmail of course).
Accessible from almost anywhere, almost any platform, without any more software then a web browser.
Often almost completely untraceable to you (somebody ratted out on our oldfashioned BBS using a hotmail account - the BBS was using @home which doesn’t allow you to use your computer as a server).
Good place for junk mail, since you don’t have as much invested in the address.
And if you’re going to use e-mail on your machine, there are much better choices then the insecure and virus-running Outlook. Even Netscape Comunicator would be a better choice.
I generally use both, as well as having an account on a school server, making it possible for me to telnet in and check it if I need to.
Oh, and almost all web-based e-mail understand HTML, which means you get fonts and bolding and whatnot. If you don’t know html, use an html editor, then paste in your message.
If there’s any special effect web-based e-mail can’t do, it’s quite likely it’s something that a lot of e-mail software out there won’t understand.
Netscape Communicator has some security holes specific to it. For some reason though, their patches aren’t as publicized.
Dunno, Brown Orifice got a round of media attention.
As far as I know, though, that is the only really significant hole it has had, and all you have to do to prevent it is turn off java, or updated to the most recent version. There’s even an option to turn off java only in e-mail.