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Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites)

Posted by Hemos on from the intereting-tests dept.

bonhomme_de_neige writes "Emails and invitations sent to Hotmail from Gmail accounts do not bounce, but nor do they arrive in the recipient's Inbox - they vanish mysteriously into the aether. Joel Johnson writes in his Gizmodo weblog that invitations he sent to a Hotmail address bounced (this even received coverage from ZDNet). Search Engine Roundtable writes that several ISPs are blocking Gmail. It's already well-documented that Yahoo moves Gmail invites into the Bulk Mail folder. I've personally confirmed the Hotmail and Yahoo blocking." Please note: I've not been able to verify this one way or another.

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  1. Re:MS & Google by Lozzer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Deomocratic Military? Surely an oxymoron.

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  2. Re:Blog crap by JohnGrahamCumming · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I live in New York, we get to see public urination every day :-) So spotting blogs wasn't hard!

    John.

  3. Re:Stunning by msh104 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, about privacy. Gmail seems to be scanning all it's mail. that will include the mail from people that send mail to gmail users. but don't forget that you sometimes HAVE to send mails to people with gmail accounts. just think about what email providers will come up with next. "your mail will now have a 4% chance of being send to a random user, he or she can then pay us in order to know where the mail is from, we think this is a very geeky way to create a dating service, if you press accept, you agree, otherwise you won't be able to use our service." the bigger companies are the only ones that can stop a privacy disaster.

  4. Re:WHAT IS A GMAIL INVITE? by d_jedi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    An invite would be very, very welcome!! schwREMOVE-THISeit @NOSPAMutoronto.ca Please remove the appropriate text as appropriate to compose my e-mail address (ie. REMOVE-THIS, NOSPAM)

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  5. Re:WHAT IS A GMAIL INVITE? by elvisdechico · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if you still have invites, i would really appreciate one sent to elvisdechico@hotmail.com thanks!

  6. Re:WHAT IS A GMAIL INVITE? by GamingEngineer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, if you have extra invites, I'd totally appreciate one... pdonate @yahoo.com

  7. Are you a truck? by Duhavid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are you a truck?

    You said to ask you that.

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  8. GMail Invites Galore by valmont · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Peek at my post history for more info, but I've still got a few to hand out and I'm getting more every day.

    i still ain't ebaying'em.

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