# In other words, Hotmail, you suck

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-words-hotmail-you-suck/119119>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 15, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-words-hotmail-you-suck/119119 "2002-07-15T21:19:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-words-hotmail-you-suck/119119/21 "2002-07-17T18:10:16Z")

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I recently change to Hotmail after my Yahoo account became hopelessly overrun with Sex Farm Sluts and other irritating SPAM letters. I made it “exclusive” and I literally have received not ONE SINGLE piece of SPAM since then. I still have my Yahoo account for this and that, but I am primarily using my Hotmail account and I couldn’t be happier with the “exclusive” setting.

Zette

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-words-hotmail-you-suck/119119/22 "2002-07-17T20:24:37Z")

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**Milossarian** , just want you to know that I read and understood your OP and realise that your problem is with viruses (virii?), inadvertently forwarded by known parties, that send your account over it’s limits. It’s not a problem with spam/junkmail filters and you cannot set your settings to exclusive or you would lose wanted mail.

Just so you know that someone’s listening. Now that I’ve passed the reading comprehension portion of the exam I am assured that I would never qualify for a career as a Softie.

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**Author:** ![tulley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@tulley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tulley)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-words-hotmail-you-suck/119119/23 "2002-07-17T21:42:07Z")

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I hate hotmail too. I totally feel your pain, as well as the pain of trying to switch email accounts. One of the things holding me back from changing is all the old mail i have that I want to hang on to. Is there a program which lets you save mail from hotmail onto your hard drive? Can you set up eudora or similar programs to grab email from hotmail?

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