So we all knew that Hotmail sucked. We just didn’t realise how much it sucked. Then I read this.
Yep. It’s not enough that sometimes you can’t open your mail, sometimes you can’t delete messages, and all that other crap. Hi! We’re Microsoft. We wear hats made from Burdock roots and we randomly delete your messages.
Fuck you Microsoft. What’s next, deciding I shouldn’t send messages to Apple, to Oracle, deciding that you don’t like profanity in email?
May your fathers be dry raped by Ricky Martin and your mothers forced to act as host mothers for a family fo hook worms.
Well, it’s not so much that they’re randomly deleting their messages. They’re blocking all ISP’s that host large numbers of spammers. It so happens that many non-spamming sites also get blocked because they share the same ISP.
Microsoft is just trying to block spam. It’s methods may not be perfect, but it’s not like it’s trying to filter out legitimate e-mail.
Holy shit! I’m with oldscratch. That fucking sucks. I can understand why Microsoft is doing it, but they should have been up front with their customers. I keep a Hotmail account as backup for when Yahoo and my regular ISP are acting up or for “fluff” mail, but not anymore. Telling people what they can and cannot send… BAH!
As a hotmail customer who recieved 536 e-mails from the same place one time, i can’t say i real upset they’re going after spammers as hard as they are. However, if they’re going to delete outgoing mail, they should notify the customer that it was blocked, and why. Then if there’s a site unjustifiably blocked, it can be straightened out right away.
Hotmail’s free, it’s not liike you’re paying for anything anyways. If you don’t like it, go to one of the other gazillion sites that offer free e-mail services.
I know they blocked people from sending e-mails to sites using blocked ISP’s. When you block something, it doesn’t go both ways. According to the article, they blocked ISP’s that hosted a lot of spammers, then people trying to send e-mails to nan-spamming sites on the same ISP as a spammer, it get’s trashed.
I don’t get it…how is their preventing people from sending to spammers or possible spammers stopping spam? I work for an ISP, and our servers have a list of servers they refuse mail from, and that should be all it takes.
yeah, hotmail’s real bad. We should stop paying good money for it. I wish they weren’t forcing us to use Hotmail, otherwise we could just use a different email service. You know what, I’m gonna demand a full refund. :rolleyes:
Hotmail users have made them plenty of money, by being exposed to ads while reading their mail. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for them to complain when their mail is prevented from being sent AND they get a false explanation for why their mail did not get there. People get attached to their email addresses, yes, you can change services (I did as soon as I found out Hotmail is NOT anonymous, your IP address is hidden in the full headers of every email you send) but it can be a pain notifying everyone to use the new address.
I just had my in-tray hit by a huge/ginormous/massive long e-mail.
It took so long to download I stopped it to see what was happening.It appeared to be a list of e-mail addresses, maybe its one that has an attatchment that e-mails copies of itself to everyone on your list of contacts and adds your own to the end of it.
I never saw the end of it so I don’t know, just deleted it right fast.
If you get an E-mail on hotmail from a person you might know only from a helpdesk or something like that and it has as its subject “no subject” or something similar I’d suggest you delete it asap.
Do not open it at any price.
Maybe this should go up as a general warning to the whole board mods ?