viv&kev 0 Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 OK so what is so bad about Hotmail - compared to other free online mail. There seems to be a lot of talk against it, I'm wondering what amazing things await me if I change over to Yahoo or something else.... Thanks Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 I have two web based email accounts. One Yahoo and one Hotmail. My Hotmail account gets around 50 pieces of junkmail a day where as I get none at all at my Yahoo account. None at all. It is an Aussie account though so that may help the lack of junk. Yahoo also has more storage space than Hotmail. Hotmail has 2mb and Yahoo has 6 or 8mb - I can't remember which. Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Quote: Originally posted by snowboard_freak: Yahoo also has more storage space than Hotmail. Hotmail has 2mb and Yahoo has 6 or 8mb - I can't remember which. Yahoo used to be 6 but now newbies get only 4 Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Junk mail mostly depends on where you have used your email address in the past. If spammers can trawl them from internet surveys, mailing lists etc then you can sure dollars to donuts they will get it somehow. If you give it out you never know who will catch it. Accounts I give only to friends have no spam, but those I give out on websites as part of required fields, eg that free Helly Hanson video, get a lot of spam. Hotmail is no worse than yahoo or any other free site email or your regular isp email account. If you give out to websites you will invariably get spammed in the end. Keep one account that you give on the websites etc and keep it only for those required situations, it will get spammed, but your private email addresses wont. Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Thanks for clearing that up kamo. I actually haven't checked my Yahoo account for ages. I should probably do that at some stage soon. Link to post Share on other sites
dancing_barefoot 0 Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Although there is some truth to that, it is not always the case. And far from all websites give out your mail address to other people or have them where bad bad spammers can get at them. Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 Quote: Originally posted by dancing_barefoot: Although there is some truth to that, it is not always the case. And far from all websites give out your mail address to other people or have them where bad bad spammers can get at them. Yes the worst case is those fowarded fowarded fowarded email chain letters, or jokes, that people send. they always send it to 2 dozen people who foward it to another two dozen people. Eventually the body of the message has hundreds of email addreses in it. Morons! Spammers can catch those emails, randomly intercept them, also one of those hundred may be a spammer themselves! those guys trade addresses with eachother! they have a cd rom with thousands of live addresses that they sell to new spammers. Utter stupidity on the behalf of those who do that (send fowarded emails), YOU are to blame for the spam. If you must send on those emails, delete the body of the message that has all the email addresses. Also dont put everybodies email address in the "to" or "cc" field use "bcc" blind carbon copy. Where all the recipients addresses are hidden and not accessible. So the receiver cant see who all the other recipients are. Smart and sensible email ettiquete must be established. Especially among the not so technically proficient members of the web community. I always give my friends a blast who lazily foward jokes without making the mail "safe" Link to post Share on other sites
echineko 1 Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 I didnt have the problem so much, I have strong spam filter working on it. But it is good name echineko@hotmail.com Link to post Share on other sites
merryJim 1 Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 I might just have to move over to Yahoo. Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 I used to use hotmail and jumped over to Yahoo when I got really fed up with it. Much prefer Yahoo. Link to post Share on other sites
bornslippy 0 Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 More like "whats good" Link to post Share on other sites
nekobi 0 Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 i like how yahoo shows when you've replied to a message. sometimes i forget with hotmail. and you get more mbs with yahoo, though the yahoo.ca and yahoo.co.uk varieties give you 6mb, while yahoo.com gives you 4. whys that? Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 So do most of you use web based email or pop3 email? I cant stand web email unless im travelling without my computer. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 POP3 with VERY lame web browser access for roaming. I never really got into the hotmail/yahoo email thing. However, now that I found out that you can access your Yahoo account via Outlook Express, I may set up a yahoo email addy. Link to post Share on other sites
green 0 Posted October 26, 2003 Share Posted October 26, 2003 I very rarely use hotmail or other web based ones, only when traveling Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted October 26, 2003 Share Posted October 26, 2003 you can only use pop3 for free with a yahoo.co.uk account. you cannot use pop3 for free with a yahoo.com email account. you also get more space with the UK account. therefore, if you sign up with yahoo, make sure you do it from yahoo.co.uk Link to post Share on other sites
r45 4 Posted October 27, 2003 Share Posted October 27, 2003 I use hotmail just for junk / when necessary, it gets overwhelmed with junk mail most of the time. Link to post Share on other sites
peterson 0 Posted November 8, 2003 Share Posted November 8, 2003 I have a strong filter on my hotmail account. it gets about 150 mails a day, the inbox gets about 10 - 8 or 9 of which are junk. Time for Yahoo perhaps. Link to post Share on other sites
zwelgen 0 Posted November 10, 2003 Share Posted November 10, 2003 Ive had my hotmail addie since 1998 and its pretty basic yo, can ya guess? I started getting a bunch of spam a couple of years ago but didnt want to change the address, just for convenience so set up filters for words like P E N I S and debt and enlargement etc and now I get pretty much no junk except for a few in my junkmail folder. Lucky perhaps? Link to post Share on other sites
its-a-clock 0 Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 How could they send you a penis email when you are a lady? It just doesn't make sense Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 What a stupid question! Have you never heard of 'penis envy'? Spammers are some of the most rational people on earth, and they see women as an obvious 'growth segment'. Link to post Share on other sites
its-a-clock 0 Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 Oh yeah. I didn't give them enough credit. Cheers for pointing that out. Link to post Share on other sites
TheOrange 0 Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 Quote: so set up filters for words like P E N I S and debt and enlargement ....but didn't that block off all your mail from your boyfriend though? Link to post Share on other sites
zwelgen 0 Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 no boyfriend so no troubles. It just blocks the emails from all the dudes wanting to sleep with me. Well, thats what I tell myself anyway Link to post Share on other sites
Octavio Estrada 0 Posted November 12, 2003 Share Posted November 12, 2003 If they wanted to "sleep with you", you'd come across as being a bit boring! Link to post Share on other sites
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