Hotmail Loses Customer Files

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday June 4, 2004 @12:09AM from the whoops-our-bad dept.

Rick Zeman writes "News.com is reporting that Microsoft's Hotmail service has lost customers' files 'due to 'system events.' The particular user cited, of course, has no recourse because of the broad disclaimers companies such as Microsoft hide behind; however, you are getting what you pay for. The scariest part of the article, however, is when a spokesman for iBackup, an Internet-based backup company, disclaims,'We do not provide a 100 percent guarantee that the backup will take place' of customers' data being stored with them for a fee."

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Re:Well, you know what they say... by paganizer · 2004-06-04 03:16 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I'm setting here coming off of a nasty 24 hours bug, so I'm not at my sharpest, but all I can say is "huh?"
DO you think that the e-mail server in Bob's kitchen is going to have the same resources devoted to blocking SPAM than Mr. 10 million served webmail service?
Maybe I just don't understand.

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