# Hotmail!! May your chigger covered corpse rot! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 19, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-may-your-chigger-covered-corpse-rot/50804 "2001-01-19T03:44:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-may-your-chigger-covered-corpse-rot/50804/1 "2001-01-19T03:44:34Z")
So we all knew that Hotmail sucked. We just didn’t realise how much it sucked. Then I read [this](http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2675891,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01). 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. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-may-your-chigger-covered-corpse-rot/50804/2 "2001-01-19T03:56:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-may-your-chigger-covered-corpse-rot/50804/3 "2001-01-19T03:59:44Z")
read it again. They’re blocking customers outgoing mail. Not incoming spam. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-may-your-chigger-covered-corpse-rot/50804/4 "2001-01-19T05:25:47Z")
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! Bill Gates and kiss my perfectly tanned ass. [[okay, no he can’t. But he can dream about it]] ---
**Author:** ![High\_Plains\_Drifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@High\_Plains\_Drifter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/High_Plains_Drifter)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-may-your-chigger-covered-corpse-rot/50804/5 "2001-01-19T05:32:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-may-your-chigger-covered-corpse-rot/50804/6 "2001-01-19T06:18:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-may-your-chigger-covered-corpse-rot/50804/7 "2001-01-19T06:20:35Z")
Oops…that should read “it goes both ways”. Dman brain lapse. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-may-your-chigger-covered-corpse-rot/50804/8 "2001-01-19T08:00:06Z")
Ha ha ha ha ha…“chiggers!” Hahahahahaha. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-may-your-chigger-covered-corpse-rot/50804/9 "2001-01-19T08:43:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Biffer\_Spice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Biffer\_Spice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffer_Spice)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-may-your-chigger-covered-corpse-rot/50804/10 "2001-01-19T10:04:26Z")
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: ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-may-your-chigger-covered-corpse-rot/50804/11 "2001-01-19T11:37:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-may-your-chigger-covered-corpse-rot/50804/12 "2001-01-19T17:21:22Z")
Hotmail warning 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 ? ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-may-your-chigger-covered-corpse-rot/50804/13 "2001-01-19T17:32:32Z")
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