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Hey Homeland Security!I wonder if a science fiction writer could have come up with a story as screwed up as this one about the tuberculosis guy. A patient with tuberculosis flew to his wedding in Greece and while he was on his honeymoon in Italy he was notified by the CDC that his tuberculosis was a scary drug resistant strain, to avoid travel, and to turn himself in to Italian authorities to be quarantined. They also told him that he had been put on the no-fly list. But damn it, he's on his honeymoon. So what did he do? He flew from Prague to Montreal to successfully avoid the no-fly list, and then he drove across the border into New York State, with no-flying:
Health officials said the man had been advised not to fly and knew he could expose others when he boarded the jets from Atlanta to Paris, and later from Prague to Montreal.
So what was unfortunately revealed by this episode?
The man, however, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that doctors didn't order him not to fly and only suggested he put off his long-planned wedding in Greece. He knew he had a form of tuberculosis and that it was resistant to first-line drugs, but he didn't realize it could be so dangerous, he said.
"We headed off to Greece thinking everything's fine," said the man, who declined to be identified because of the stigma attached to his diagnosis.
He flew to Paris on May 12 aboard Air France Flight 385. While in Europe, health authorities reached him with the news that further tests had revealed his TB was a rare, "extensively drug-resistant" form, far more dangerous than he knew. They ordered him into isolation, saying he should turn himself over to Italian officials.
Instead, the man flew from Prague to Montreal on May 24 aboard Czech Air Flight 0104, then drove into the United States at Champlain, N.Y. He told the newspaper he was afraid that if he didn't get back to the U.S., he wouldn't get the treatment he needed to survive.
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The man told the Journal-Constitution he was in Rome during his honeymoon when the CDC notified him of the new tests and told him to turn himself in to Italian authorities to be isolated and be treated. The CDC told him he couldn't fly aboard commercial airliners.
"I thought to myself: You're nuts. I wasn't going to do that. They told me I had been put on the no-fly list and my passport was flagged," the man said.
He told the newspaper he and his wife decided to sneak back into the U.S. through Canada. He said he voluntarily went to a New York hospital, then was flown by the CDC to Atlanta.
He is not facing prosecution, health officials said.
"I'm a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person," he told the paper. "This is insane to me that I have an armed guard outside my door when I've cooperated with everything other than the whole solitary-confinement-in-Italy thing."- After six good years of hysteric overspending we still can't track down TB patients on their honeymoons much less bioterrorists
- So we put patients with communicable diseases on our handy terrorist no-fly list
- Handy travel tip for anyone on the no-fly list: fly Czech Air to Canada and enter the U.S. via rental car!
- Tuberculosis causes dementia as is shown here by the illogical desire to get to the U.S. for medical treatment
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Regarding webmail providers' response to gmail (the 1GB storage in particular), I think mail.com's response is the most laughable. While yahoo and hotmail respond by increasing their quota, mail.com just remove the line 10MB mailbox from their front page.
Besides that, mail.com also joined the crowd and added a link to "Report Message as Spam". However, they don't even have a working spam filter. (They are still using the ancient method that you tell the system a list of sender email addresses that you want to block.) -
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The Google toolbar's popup blocking is pretty good, but mail.com manages to thwart it on their homepage (it blocks most of them, but they slip in a pop-under). I never got around to digging into the source to figure out what they're doing, but whatever it is, it doesn't work in Firefox. No idea about XP SP2.
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Make it easy on the gp, clickable link
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www.mail.com
Go to www.mail.com. Sign up for an e-mail account (it's free and quick). Send mail from that account to some (other) e-mail address. The other e-mail address will then be getting lots of spam (for online casinos).
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Re:It's not a bad thing
Spam is a social problem, just like any other type of fraud.
Yes, often the goods and/or services promoted through spam are fraud, but spam itself is not fraud. It is advertising.
As for the problem, I see it as a technical problem, as in "Why can't my damn service provider reject email with forged headers, from unsecured servers, from ISP's that are notorious for hosting spamers, and is obviously and easily recognised as spam by even the most half-assed filters? I guess I'll have to get my service somewhere else or check and filter it myself."
I haven't been "on the 'net" all that long (about seven years), but I still wonder when it happened that my fellow "netizens" started begging to be regulated. If you have a spam problem, do something about it. Learn something about the problems with open relays, irresponsible ISPs and how touse procmail to filter spam.
Help others learn by pointing them in the right direction.
Encourage your provider to take proper measures to stop spam from entering or exiting thier domain, and put pressure on other providers to do the same.
Don't use services that encourage spammers (Hotmail, AOL, MSN, Mail.com, etc)
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Open Relays?
I wonder how many of these spammers are using open relays.
Whenever I read of proposed spam legislation and law enforcement attempts, I can't help but think that this somehow encourages companies and individuals to not take the neccessary care in configuring thier hosts, suscribing to blackhole lists, or running proper filters on thier hosts/servers.
When I see the disparity between email providers in the amount of spam I recieve, I realise that the admins are at least partially to blame. (My mail account at mail.com recieves approximately 7 to 12 spam emails a day, while my account at gmx has recieved only about 5 during the past year.)
Are there still any reliable blackhole lists?
Can/should email providers filter outgoing mail to regulate thier customers?
Can administrators control the spam problem?
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Re:I don't get itI don't get spam. I just don't get any. I don't let my e-mail get out to stupid places on the net where a spider will get them. I don't sign up for weird things. I avoid anything slightly untrustworthy. And as a result I get no spam
That's great if you can pull it off, but most of us don't have that luxury.
There are five e-mail addresses that can reach me, which get different degrees of spam, due to different abilities to keep them private:
- The primary address for my ISP is kept completely private - I don't give this address to anybody - not even my immediate family. It's not a word that appears in the dictionary. Only my ISP and I know this address, and the only thing I get from them is the monthly receipt for the bill. This account has not received any spam (at all - not one) in many years, although the mailbox that forwards itself into this mailbox does get spam.
- My second mailbox is also from my ISP. It forwards everything into the primary address. The idea here is that I can blow away this mailbox without blowing away my ISP account along with it. I give this address to family, friends and some private mailing lists. This address gets some spam, but not very much.
- The third mailbox is a web-mail box from mail.com. This is my spam-trap address, which I use on all web sites, newsgroup postings, and for my shopping. I expect this one to get spammed, but because it uses a web interface, I can sift through the subject lines and delete the spam without downloading it. The surprising thing is that this mailbox doesn't get nearly as much spam as the next two to.
- The fourth mailbox is the moderator address for a mailing list I run. Unfortunately, I can't hide this one, since non-subscribers may need it if they have a problem subscribing. It gets spammed extensively. Typically about 40-80 spams a week.
- Finally, there's my work mailbox. Due to the nature of my job, I must frequently post messages to IETF working group mailing lists with this address, and those lists are mirrored to many web sites. These lists are the only public places that I ever use this address, and the company directory is not accessible to the outside world. This account typically gets 30-60 spams a day.
On the plus side, ever since Mozilla version 1.3 came out, it hasn't bothered me nearly as much. Current Mozilla releases have a spam filter that learns by example. You click a button to tag spam as "junk" and Mozilla constructs its own filters. If it guesses wrong, you click the button to tag legitimate mail as "not junk". After about two weeks of training, it becomes very accurate. I recently returned to work after a week's vacation to find about 210 spams in my mailbox - Mozilla correctly filtered 200 of them into a junk-mail folder with no false positives.
-- David
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Re:Cross Upgrade to QMail
So what is technically wrong with sendmail?
Did you fail to notice that this entire article is about yet another remote sendmail root exploit?
Other things that are wrong with sendmail:
- Horrible, horrible resource utilization issues. Fork a new copy of the whole goddamn multimegabyte /usr/lib/sendmail for each new delivery. Copy-on-write swap systems save you some here, but this is circa-1979 engineering at its worst.
- Configuration is a bad joke. The M4 macros are a bandaid slapped on top of a sucking chest wound. The web-based configurators in the commercial sendmails are a gold star slapped on top of the bandaid. Quick: name the four different "MASQUERADE" options supported by sendmail.mc, and explain how they differ and in what situations you would use which combinations of them. Can't do it without referring to the manual? Don't feel bad, neither can I, and I used to manage sendmail for a living.
- Incredibly crappy delivery performance. The hashed queues in recent sendmails have somewhat alleviated this, but qmail, postfix and exim still trounce sendmail for remote delivery speed.
- No VERP support.
- Last I checked (circa 8.11), SSL/TLS/ASMTP was a painful joke, requiring an incredibly fragile collection of third-party libraries to even stand a chance of working, which it usually didn't. (Compare to Courier, which includes all of the above out of the box.)
- Sendmail's monolithic design makes _any_ extensions into a bleeding nightmare. Compare to qmail or postfix, where if you don't like one component (the smtp daemon, the delivery agent, etc etc) it's a snap to swap it with one of your own.
- Bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs.
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Re:A dialogue I had with Anti-Adblocker
Similarly, the free email at mail.com doesn't allow you to delete emails when you refuse pop-ups in Opera (in Mozilla it will open a window no matter what). But that's probably just because the script for deleting the selected mail is contained in the pop-up window. Of course - you can just block images from doubleclick.net.
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Of animation and flash...
I typically despise any animations or plugins, and I prefer Lynx to any other browser. However, Opera's nice for looking at userfriendly every day. What's annoying, though, is that I have to enable javascript just to view some sites. This is useless. Offhand, Mail.com... there's absolutely no need to make links with javascript. As other people have said, keeping things simple is best. If you have no content, then you're just wasting bandwidth anyway, and no amount of cutsey pictures will disguise the fact. There is only ONE site that I've ever seen that makes *perfect* use of flash/gif animations, and that's How Stuff Works. Check out their article on lock picking, or Programming In C. Compare useful stuff like that to frivolous garbage, shown here: FX Networks. The world will be a far better place when we can simply euthanize Frontpage users.
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Re:Spammers in the US, sure
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Re:smarter seldom seems to be a decision criteria.
You mean like this? darrellsilver@mail.com
Is that correct? I'm rather new at this so-called "address demunging". I've also taken the liberty of posting your e-mail address on a popular e-commerce mailing list. Apparently the people there are quite good at address demunging and are happy to help you test your address.
By the way, can you post your real postal address as well? I have some complimentary white powder I would like to send you.
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Re:Small Subscriber Base?When I was working for another of the large isps they considered pretty much the same situation with their 5.95 a month customers. One of the ideas I offered and they never took was the union with a personal email service like Mail.com but they are already free
...Would people pay for @heavypetting.com address
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Is AOL Email truly Enterprise Calibre? I think NotIs AOL mail really a corporate calibre product? It doesn't seem so. It is targeted tward the technical novice, providing few features and poor integration with scheduling and other groupware features. A Time magazine employee summed it up best, in the NY Times Article itself:
even employees who acknowledge that their previous e-mail system "isn't very good" are not convinced that America Online is the best choice for a corporate e-mail program. "AOL got popular because it's really simple and easy to use," said a writer at a Time Inc. magazine. "But when you're in a workplace, it's just not very full featured."
Another concern is security. Well it seems that they have that one covered, although SecurID is a cumbersome system. It's neat for the geek in all of us, to have a card with a rotating numerical pin for security, but it is no more secure than many of the more recent advances in this field, and it's tremendously inconvenient. Again, from the article:Another issue is the added level of security that will be required for employees to retrieve their e-mail. Rather than logging on to the network by typing in a name and password, employees will also need to type in a number that appears on a digital card. Because the number changes every few seconds, the device adds a level of security to the e-mail system, but it also creates headaches for employees.
Unfortunately, they don't seem to realize how much of a 'headache for employees' it really is. At my ompany, a large telecom equipment manufacturer, we chose do do away with securid (implementing other solutions) because the inconvenience outweighed the benefit.
As much as it pains me to say this, Microsoft has one of the best Enterprise email systems right now. Granted, it doesn't scale vary well and it's tremendously expensive when compared to SMTP based systems, but it does have comprehensive groupware features. The other possibilities would have been Lotus CC:Mail or Novel Groupwise which are both far past their prime and either in need of being severely overhauled, or End-Of-Lifed by their companies.
The final class of mail system are those new .com outsourced enterprise mail solutions such as was offered by Mail.com and others, although I believe that company has just gone through some restructuring, where the enterprise email services were re-branded and spun off from the free personal email service (If someone can enlighten me here I'd appreciate it).
In any case, AOL has chosen the worst of a set of halfway decent possibilities - Oh, an I almost forgot IPlanet.com which offers what used to be the Netscape mail and calendar products -. There is something to be said for promoting your own products (at my company we use the telephones we produce, and the switching systems we produce) but in cses where use of your own company's product will impact your productivity, or otherwise negitively impact the work of your employees, it would be a severely misguided decision.
--CTH
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Re:Spam costs in many ways
I get very little spam in my main inbox, by putting noone@nowhere.com in every damn e-mail box I fill out on the internet
I usually give companies a dose of their own medicine and use one of their mailboxes for registrations. For example, Realplayer is registered to abuse@real.com, and Quicktime is registered to abuse@apple.com.
Even though my cable modem is $50/month regardless of how much spam I get
I spend a lot more than that. Let me see
... $US163.75/mo and that lets me receive up to 3GB of spam.And can you believe it, mail.com won't close an email account I got there?
PS, tip for qmail users: to create a mail blackhole, use:
|/bin/true/bin/true exists on my Linux Mandrake system.
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Re:Contains TUX - world's fastest web server
I don't think your very smart. Try:
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Java isn't going anywhere?
Java was a great idea let down by a flawed implementation and a flawed corporate strategy IMHO. What I think is that whilst the language itself isn't really going anywhere fast, the idea behind it will live on.
Java is used by almost every major player in every major industry in the U.S. and beyond. Personal Java runs on the myriad embedded systems with their own JVM and even American Express credit cards. Java servlets and JSP run myriad websites from mail.com to First Union . Enterprise Java Beans and it's associate web server platforms has spawned a cottage industry of server platform developers that include IBM, Bea, Allaire and more. Java ships with a free fully functional CORBA orb which allows for rapid development of robust, multi-tiered distributed applications.
Simply because all the C hackers and Perl users on Slashdot aren't using Java does not mean that it isn't going anywhere fast. I haven't seen a new Linux app coded in Lisp or Smalltalk in a while, this doesn't mean they are dead.
And it seems as though Microsoft have learned the lesson from this that Sun didn't, so I expect C# to go places Java never will.
C# will be a Microsoft only language which already puts it behind Java in places it can go. Standardization of the syntax of the language is useless if all the underlying DCOM/COM+/.NET infrastructure exists only on Windows.
On the other hand, I recently wrote a testing tool for a multibillion dollar corporation that sells SCM software to several Fortune five hundred companies, over the summer and noticed that Java is almost Write Once Run Anywhere as originally promised by Sun. The company I worked for supports six different platforms and is considering supporting Linux as a seventh. Their languages of choice for building tools for cross-platform development were Perl and Java. The chances of them switching all that to C# and losing over 50 per cent of their customers? ZERO
Of course the actual apps were written in Motif/MFC depending on the platform
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Convocation to a Slashdot Reunion!
As events like these at MIT show, and as slashdot quickly approaches a quarter of a million users, it's time for a slashdot reunion. Below is enclosed a list of the first 50 users, the folks who really know what it means to say, "I remember the good ol' days." How many of these users are still active? Reply, and show your true colors. The who replies with the lowest userid gets a prize! CmdrTaco (1) email: malda@slashdot.org
Hemos (2)
drendite (3) email: reishus@utdallas.edu
CowboyNeal (4) email: pater@slashdot.org
samzenpus (5)
jgoldsch (6)
CLorox (7) email: clorspam@marblehead.com
Emmett Plant (8) email: emmett@slashdot.org
keith (9) email: kcalder at andrew.cmu.edu
ximenes (10) email: sak8@po.cwru.edu
velkro (11) email: root@localhost
RAD Kade 1 (12) email: kmradlof@nospam@colby.edu
TechNoir (13) email: technoir@linux.com
Christopher Bibbs (14)
DeadBeef (15) email: spam@osoal.org.nz
Tom Rothamel (16) email: tom-slashdot@onegeek.org
Rolf W. Rasmussen (17) email: rolfwr+slashdot@ii.uib.no
davidu (18) email: davidu@angrywhitemale.com
steffenz (19)
Pug (21) email: pug007@sgi.net
jdesbonnet (22)
bounce@vegas.net (23)
Dorkman (24)
geNeV (25)
psychonut (26) email: lfd@NOSPAMsnip.net
francais (27) email: my1stname@mylastname.org
version conflict (28) email: cat /proc/kcore >> /dev/audio
jk (29) email: hns@scurvy.org
IAN (30)
Vadim Grinshpun (31) email: vg23@nospam.cornell.edu spidey (32)
ccg (34) email: ccg_spam at yahoo.com (just change 'at')
Crow- (35)
BOredAtWork (36) email: dsracic at vt.edu
smartax (37) email: br+slashdot@mindshark.com
David Rolfe (38) email: fromslashdot@shro0m.cx
Beirne (39)
michiel (41)
magg (42) email: mSaPgAgM@mail.com
Zack (44) email: zallison@rice.edu.spam
Ryan Kirkpatrick (45) email: slashdot@rkirkpat.net
Kadmin Kobolos (46)
euroderf (47) email: fred@moremagic.com
Mark Edwards (48)
sariman (49) email: ben@REMOVEsariman.net
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No Cool java Apps?Why is it that everytime Java is mentioned on slashdot some clueless person has to post some tripe about how they haven't seen any cool Java apps.
Now this is off the top of my head...- The new American Express credit cards use Java Card(TM) technology. That's right, American Express credit cards now run Java. Here's an
- interview with the CIO of Amex.
- Both
- Oracle 8i and IBM's DB2 use Java extensively both for their DB administration GUIs as well as for middleware code. If you didn't know, these are the number 1 and number 2 Enterprise database systems in the world
- Java servlets and JSP are used extensively on the web from sites like
- mail.com to Firstunion.com. Hundreds of sites use Java(TM) to deliver dynamic content these two are simply the most prominent that come to mind.
- Personal Java(TM) runs on
- millions of settop cable boxes in the United States.
The Queue Principle -
What's so great about Hotmail?For the life of me, I can't figure out why Hotmail is practically synonymous with Web-based email. First to market? Or first to popularize? While I have personally had no complaints or problems with Hotmail, I'd hardly place it in the upper tier of free Web-based email services. I think uReach and iName are superior if only because they don't divulge the originator's IP address. But Netaddress, Mail.com, Mailcity, OneBox, eMail, ExciteMail, GoMail, just about any portal or community site (Deja, Netscape, AltaVista), and any number of smalltime "boutique" services (like ApexMail, Flashmail or MyPad) will do the trick and often with better service or features. Or is MSN's Passport service really that compelling?
Besides uReach, Yahoo!Mail is the only one I use for "real" mail because I'm hooked by the rest of Yahoo's personalized services, esp. Yahoo!Companion. The rest are just "throwaway's", good for pseudononymous transactions. If you're placing a lot of trust in Hotmail not to lose your data, or keep it secure, or always be available...I think you're being foolish.
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E-mail in web browsers
What does e-mail have to do with a browser?
Mail.com, Coldmail.com, Hotmail.com, Yahoo.com, AOL.com webmail, etc. The good ones have encrypted login pages.
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Re:Just Forth?
Actually, you can also use VB. This semester myself and another student built a robotic arm and programmed it using the pBrick interface from LEGO. LEGO's tech support was stumped every time we called them for a little clarification on the VB/pBrick interface, but the VB code is easy enough to allow someone to mess around with the brick and not damage too much by the way of gears and such. This robotic arm was then trained to respond to voice commands handled by Dragon Point & Speak. We currently have plans to interface it [the arm] with the web, but we need a little more time to get that taken care of. If you'd like to know more, email me.
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Y2Kmistakes
Keep 'em comming!
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To see screenshots of websites affected by Y2K.
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Re:Any mirrors?
BTW:
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Re:Hotmail Alternatives?
I personally like mail.com. You can choose a @whereever.com domain (they have several to choose from) and offer some pretty good services, such as POP3 access, Organizer and forwarding. Best of all, it's not owned or supported by M$.
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Oh, this is gonna be unpopular.Frankly, I gotta say I'm glad to hear about this. It isn't an ad, it isn't pro-spam, it's AIBO news.
/. has said everything that's come up about AIBO since the thing was first heard of, including bitching about how much they cost. Now, here's a (very slim) chance to get a free one, and I'm glad to know about it.And to all you ppl worried about evil evil nasty spam, even if they are lying, it's about time you wake up and notice it's 1999 and spam exists.
Get a spamtrap accnt. isn't that what Mail.com is for?
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ahem. email address?
Hrmpf.. from checking his stats on ispeed.com, it seems his email is dolganeq@mail.com. Just an interesting tidbit, not that I'm suggesting you do anything with it, like submit it to as many spam lists as you can find or anything.. not suggesting that at all.
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Re:Reliability
Being a young person, I've moved (and foresee moving) often (college, work, etc) and it is difficult to maintain an email address. (It's difficult to switch 40 friends and relatives every few months.) So I just toughed it out and suffered through Hotmail. (It was fine before they were bought by you-know-who.)
Use an email forwarding service, like www.mail.com. They have many free addresses available, as well as "premium" addresses (click here to view other services powered by Mail.com). I switch free email providers all the time (I use POP3, not web-based email, and it's a lot harder to find free POP3 accounts). I just log in to Mail.com and update my forwarding address when it changes. When someone sends me mail, it is forwarded to my real address in about 5 seconds.
If you like Linux, www.justlinux.com will also give you email forwarding (@linuxfan.com, @linuxfreak.com, @penguinpowered.com).
Outlook Express integration of Hotmail is one of the major things keeping me with Win95 and IE5 (don't laugh, it's useful!).
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Re:Reliability
Being a young person, I've moved (and foresee moving) often (college, work, etc) and it is difficult to maintain an email address. (It's difficult to switch 40 friends and relatives every few months.) So I just toughed it out and suffered through Hotmail. (It was fine before they were bought by you-know-who.)
Use an email forwarding service, like www.mail.com. They have many free addresses available, as well as "premium" addresses (click here to view other services powered by Mail.com). I switch free email providers all the time (I use POP3, not web-based email, and it's a lot harder to find free POP3 accounts). I just log in to Mail.com and update my forwarding address when it changes. When someone sends me mail, it is forwarded to my real address in about 5 seconds.
If you like Linux, www.justlinux.com will also give you email forwarding (@linuxfan.com, @linuxfreak.com, @penguinpowered.com).
Outlook Express integration of Hotmail is one of the major things keeping me with Win95 and IE5 (don't laugh, it's useful!).
What happened to Microsoft supporting open standards? Maybe you should write to them and ask where you can download their protocol. :)