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MSN Forces Outlook POP

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-gotta-be-kidding dept.

Phoenix-D writes: "Qwest.net, my Phoenix-area DSL provider and ISP, recently decided to hand over their ISP buisness to MSN. No huge deal, right? Well, check out this blurb: 'Due to the Microsoft anti-spam initiative, customers are restricted to use their mail services. Therefore, POP3 service is only available when using MSN Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, or Microsoft Outlook Express.'" Awesome. Microsoft's Anti-Spam initiative forces POP users to use the primary sender of mail worms.

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  1. For all those who defend M$ here. by 7-Vodka · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Another example of M$ behaving like assholes and leveraging their monopoly power to squelch the competition.


    How many more would you like?

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  2. Re:What right's infringed here? by CaptDeuce · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Troll fodder.

    The right to choose your email client. Using your [ahem] logic, denying black people mortgages is perfectly OK since they can just go another lender, right? Feh to your [scoff] logic.

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  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  4. Re:It could be worse by Lxy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ssshhh... they'll hear you!!!

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  5. Re:SPA(M) by painkillr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your mom has been taking care of that for us.