Hotmail Cracks Down on Spam

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Posted by michael on Tuesday September 28, 2004 @01:14AM from the improved-profit-margin dept.

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."

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another reason ... by Jimpqfly · 2004-09-28 01:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

... to use GMail ?
MOD DOWN (grammar nazi) by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-28 01:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

n/t
Gmail invites by the+Howard+Dean+Camp · 2004-09-28 01:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I have 11 Gmail invites that I will give to the first 11 _logged in_ replies to this. Be sure to include your email address (obfuscated okay).
1. Re:Gmail invites by keeleysam · 2004-09-28 01:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  OK, i ran out, i need some more for friends
  
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  Nothing for you to see here, Please move along.
2. Re:gmail invites by gregarican · 2004-09-28 01:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  I'm game! Greg_Kujawa@yahoo.com
No lie. by SatanicPuppy · 2004-09-28 01:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This is pretty much the death knell for hotmail for me. If I can't automatically download the crap in my mailbox once a month, that's all she wrote.

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1. Re:No lie. by ikkonoishi · 2004-09-28 05:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  I would like an invite.
  
  Could you put one in my journal or send one to shardofpower@yahoo.com (email not protected due to it already being on almost all spam lists).
2. Re:No lie. by TheMediaWrangler · 2004-09-28 05:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  *nods agreement*
  
  I'd like a gmail invite, thanks!
  
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3. Re:No lie. by QQ2 · 2004-09-28 06:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Well if you have a g-mail invite I would more then happy to "take one of your hands" :-).
  
  (Nothing like teasing the MS Zealots/employees at work with the wonders of compeditors.)
  
  -Regards QQ2
Re:Ummm... by Afty0r · 2004-09-28 01:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Complete sentences people.
How can this not be modded +5 ironic?
Re:Quck summary of next 200 posts by hackronym0 · 2004-09-28 01:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Angels bite the priests.
An empty, yellow moon sets.
Sad plundered smoke works.
;-P

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Re:Off to Gmail by StevenHenderson · 2004-09-28 01:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Need an invite? I got em if you want...
Re:Here is - by pipingguy · 2004-09-28 01:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Not to be a grammar/spelling nazi...

What I find interesting is the spelling and syntax ignorance at Slashdot. Given that many commenters are programmers, one would think that they'd be more careful with the tyoing.
Re:Quck summary of next 200 posts by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-28 01:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Don't forget the 3 A/C's who make lame Soviet Russia jokes. BTW, Are we still doing those?

Of course. This is slashdot.

In Soviet Russia, lame jokes make YOU!
GMail invites = SPAM???? by Ced_Ex · 2004-09-28 01:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I've sent gmail invites to friends who have hotmail. All of them claim to not have received it. WTF is going on?

Is that some sort of censorship, or have they got their SPAM filters pointed at gmail?

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Re:Quck summary of next 200 posts by Christopheles · 2004-09-28 01:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

2 replies indicating mathematical and grammatical errors in the post summarizing the other posts.
Re:Quck summary of next 200 posts by Scrab · 2004-09-28 01:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Four in one?

Death for those who spam
Gmail beats hotmail, hands down
plus microsoft sucks....

Scrab

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Re:Quck summary of next 200 posts by cjjjer · 2004-09-28 01:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Also...

200 replies beneath your current threshold.
Re:Not enough storage? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-28 02:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

If you've got any GMail Invites left, I'd appreciate one. m0biwan(At)yahoo.com
Re:Ummm... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-28 02:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Nope. The lack of a comma dooms it to grammar purgatory.
Re:Ummm... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-28 02:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Complete sentences people.

How can this not be modded +5 ironic?

Actually, if we stick a comma in there like so:

Complete sentences, people.

We then have a complete sentence. It's a direct address command telling people to complete their sentences.

Man, I'm way too bored this morning.
Re:WebDAV by marrwarr · 2004-09-28 02:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

nah you should still be alright, but it does mean you have to pay now
Re:Ummm... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-28 02:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

> I hate to do this (um, no I don't. I live for this shit) but he/she/it/shellscript probably meant 'complete' as a verb.

Actually, it's an incomplete sentence, and something of an old joke. The fact that slashdot editors are being paid for doing essentially nothing while competent people are still jobless is what irks me most of all.
gmail invites by lixlpixel · 2004-09-28 07:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic

first come, first serve...
get yours @ http://www.fundisom.com/free-gmail.php
and if you manage to get one - and feel like saying thanks,
there are these ads on that page...
enjoy.