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Hotmail Cracks Down on Spam
Magmar writes "The team at Microsoft has decided to restrict free users from using Outlook and Outlook Express for managing email. This is going to be reserved for those who will pay for their accounts. The reason given for restricting the WebDav access of Outlook and Outlook Express is to prevent spammers from abusing the free service."
Just read access, and you have to use your own ISP's server for outbound SMTP?
"Records show we have 100 million users. Finance records show 75 million are non-paying. We will need at *least* 18,600 TB of storage.
-- My Sig is a P228.
Because they assumed that only a small percentage of users would actually use that 250 MB; in other words, they assumed they could get away with promising 250 MB but have consumers only use maybe 10 MB. Rather like ISPs do with bandwidth: if I have 5 Gbps bandwidth, and I have 10,000 customers, what bandwidth do I promise them? 500 kbps? No, of course not, I promise them 3 Mbps, and if they all try to use it at once, I say "we did not anticipate this level of demand." I'm not saying it's right, of course, just saying that it's not an uncommon practice.
"Complete your sentences, people!"
Or, maybe 'sentences' is the verb in which case one is left wondering what the sentence might be. 10-15 years of hard labor, maybe?
"Judge Complete sentences people to life imprisonment for being grammar nazis."
Works for me.
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Oh well, lets not worry about hotmail! I think its actually a *GOOD* idea that people are prevented from using outlook and or outlook express :) And Microsoft came up with this idea?? Thats two birds with one stone. Bring on the Gmail!
Ps. I still have gmail invites for those that want one.