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| Time: 09:24 EST/14:24 GMT | News Source: USA Today | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Christopher Larson has been suspended from MSN Hotmail six times recently. His crime: exceeding the new 2-megabyte storage limit that Microsoft's Web-based, ad-supported free e-mail service gives users. ''Some goofball put me on a bulk mailer on a Sunday, and I got 1,000 pieces of mail in one day,'' says Larson, 43, a Los Angeles paralegal. ''By Monday, I couldn't get to my e-mail until I cleared out my inbox. No matter what you do to screen out junk mail, with Hotmail it just doesn't work.'' Larson lost mail; his friends had their e-mails bounced back as undeliverable. Hotmail's solution: Buy more storage space for $19.95 a year, which Larson refuses to do. | ||
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| #1 By 4209 (163.192.21.3) at 4/1/2002 11:42:11 AM |
| That is why you get e-mail from your ISP. If it is important then you have it sent there. if it is not important you use the free service. He must have an internet connection and ISP so he should use that account for business e-mail. Who does not know not to have imporatant e-mail sent to a free providor. What morons use Hotmail, Yahoo, or any other free service for there main e-mail account and to do business with that account. If your business dealing are dependent on Hotmail then you have more problems than you know of. |
| #2 By 61 (65.32.169.133) at 4/1/2002 11:54:56 PM |
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Actually, within the last month or so, I've been getting an enormous amount of junk-mail as well, it was mostly filtered before, only maybe 10 a week, but now I get about 200 a day, I lost some very valueable stuff on it as I use hotmail to store a lot of my important e-mails, since I frequently format my system due to beta testing, and such.
Methinks this might be an MS ploy... and those that know me know that I generally give MS the benefit of the doubt, but this seems to be happening to everybody lately. |
| #3 By 1845 (12.254.230.230) at 4/2/2002 6:27:55 PM |
| I have used Hotmail since '98 and I've never gone over my limit. So much for an "MS ploy". |
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