[SeSawaya]

Just wanted to warn everyone here that hotmail can and will close your account for NO reason. I never spamed anyone or anything that violates their policy. Now after a grueling 6 years with the same account, it and everything in it are gone. I emailed their tech support and all they could tell me was "it was against company policy to discuss why it was closed"

One more reason to HATE microshaft!

[fobside]

i know they close em if you dont check them for a while but thats about it.

[I Bent My Wookiee]

Originally posted by fobside:
<STRONG>i know they close em if you dont check them for a while but thats about it.</STRONG>

Or if you go over the limit.

[fulmer]

they'll warn you first when you're approaching the measly 2 MB limit. just a little email in your Inbox. But they do close them after (what, a month?) a period of inactivity.

last semester some time my gf checked her hotmail box one day to find that every single one of her messages was gone. disappeared into the ether. emailed hotmail support and never got a reply as to what the heck happened.

[Cellery]

Hotmail deleted about 500 archived messages I had and I got about 100 spam mails a day without subscribing to anything or being listed in the member directory. I remember back in the day before it was owned my M$, that was nice. Anyway, mac.com now has web access, so there's little to keep Mac users at Hotmail anymore.

[juanvaldes]

Originally posted by fobside:
<STRONG>i know they close em if you dont check them for a while but thats about it.</STRONG>

I could sware that they just lowered this to something stupid like 10 days.

[SeSawaya]

I'll check out the mac.com thing. Man, 6 + years down the drain. Thank God I dont use winblows

[mchladek]

Originally posted by Cellery:
<STRONG>Anyway, mac.com now has web access, so there's little to keep Mac users at Hotmail anymore.</STRONG>

Whoa! I just noticed that. Sweet! I was wondering when Apple would finally take the leap into webmail. I'll definitely still use the Mail.app most of the time, but now I can check my Mac.com e-mail on friends' computers.

[l'ignorante]

Great, I didn't know that..At work the itools page is pretty useless because of the ugly Dell I have to work on. I always thought my e-mail account was also not accessible from a PC (like the mac homepage).

[ 04-18-2002: Message edited by: l'ignorante ]

[IUJHJSDHE]

I used to like hotmail.

Don't now, now it's junk, I lost ton's of e-mail to those microsoft bastareds!!

Anyway when I used to like hotmail was the same time I used to like windows.

Until my mac friend showed me the light of day and got me to buy an iBook.

[omac]

they should rename it flame-mail, use it & get burnt.

[OwlBoy]

they do.

-Owl

[Justin W. Williams]

Hotmail is the runnerup in the Spam King world. I have an AOL account on my dad's account and periodically check it just for grins, and I have more pr0n and Debt Consolidation spam in there. It's just insane. I don't know how anyone could use the stuff.

[SeSawaya]

I totally agree. Having used up my 250 blocks (in the first week) I would delete about 40 messages a day that were spam.

I send out one email to all my friends and wack! I'm cut!

hotmail SUCKS!

[pdjr]

Originally posted by l'ignorante:
<STRONG>Great, I didn't know that..At work the itools page is pretty useless because of the ugly Dell I have to work on. I always thought my e-mail account was also not accessible from a PC (like the mac homepage).</STRONG>

PCs can access both Apple.com and WebMail, FYI.

[KaptainKaya]

Originally posted by pdjr:
<STRONG>

PCs can access both Apple.com and WebMail, FYI.</STRONG>

I think they were referring to iTools itself, like using the homepage features.

[SeSawaya]

just checked out the Apple email!! It ROCKS!!! goodbye Hotmail of Spam!

[chris_h]

webmail.mac.com &gt; hotmale.com

[IUJHJSDHE]

Originally posted by chris_h:
<STRONG>webmail.mac.com &gt; hotmale.com</STRONG>

hotmale?!?!??!

[Jim Paradise]

I get more spam-mail from Hotmail (as in literally from Microsoft) than any other spam. Seriously, it's like every second day Microsoft has to announce new user policies, changes, upgrades, bullshyte, etc. etc. I *don't care, Hotmail, about what it is you are offering!!*

But yes... it's great that I can check my mac.com account via the web now

[eep!]

otmail is the only site i visit that needs IE, it crashes mozilla 0.9.9 everytime
so, bye-bye hotmail.

[Beewee]

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I'm laughing at this as I look through 50 messages of junk e-mail. 15 porno, and the rest about money. (Making money, saving money, credit card debt etc.) Bill Gates only thinks about two things: 1. Is money (which he has) 2. Is sex (which he'll never get)