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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."
Actual link to article - http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1652391,00.as p
Not to be a grammar/spelling nazi, but wtf is -
"Microsoft not anticipating the storage that user of the free email accounts..."
More like (FTA)-
"We are seeing customers consuming more storage than we anticipated, and we're bringing more storage online," she said.
I would think this wouldn't have gotten past the eds...But in any case, hope this clears things up.
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How will keeping people from reading their email help reduce spam? Hotmail already limits you to sending ~100 messages/day.
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.
Complete sentences people.
Use complete sentences, people.
I'm sure everyone else has noticed that the reason quoted for doing just about anything in the real world lately has been "to defeat terrorists". In fact, that's why I handed my latest project in late at work. It seems Microsoft is starting a trend to make spammers the cyber-equivalent of the terrorist scapegoat in the real world. This seems to me to be plain and simple that because of GMail, Microsoft can't use a ridiculous amount of storage (2 pitiful megs)as an incentive to pay them money that now they're looking for other features to take away to encourage people to pay up. I have a free Hotmail account and do use the Outlook Express option. It's a nice enough feature with plenty of annoyances, which is why I'm glad I switched my primary email account to Gmail some time ago.
I'm a big tall mofo.
>>Complete sentences people. This statement doesn't even parse lexically, let alone make sense.
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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.
Well, no Outlook Express, no reason to use Hotmail over Gmail. Thanks M$ for the impetus I needed.
And too bad your engineers just couldn't figure that spam problem out.
Dude, like, y'know, American college students *are* like totally a non-English speaking workforce.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
"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.