Some time mid-last year we had the 10GB (or 15GB I forget which) plan and of course the mobile hot spot. Then added a line and switched to an unlimited data plan since it was offered, not knowing that the hot spot feature would be lost, no one mentioned that to us at the time. When in just a few hours we realized that hot spot was missing and switched back.
My point being is that I don't see how this is new but for maybe that after 6 months or so they finally make it official.
Some time back I made another Hotmail account, set it up just like I do all of the others which back then meant turning on spam filtering which was off by default. I never used it any where and I still got spam. This is a completely unique name too, so it's not like anyone else could had it before me so that the spam I was getting was theirs. But not only did I get spam, at least 90% of it was in the Inbox so I still had to teach it that it was spam. Now you can argue that it was a long time ago and that Hotmail's spam filtering has improved a lot since then. Ok I'll give you that, however....
These days I use Gmail to get my Hotmail emails as well. Gmail only gets what is in the Inbox, nothing else. At least 2-3 times a week I Gmail gets, and filters, spam that was in my Hotmail's Inbox stuff that Hotmail should have filtered on it's own in fact in some cases when I got to that Hotmail account and look there are emails similar to the one that Gmail had to filter that Hotmail did catch and come in before the one that Gmail had to filter. And when I say similar, I mean the From address is close to the same, the Subjects are or close to the exact same, and even the body of the email is either the exact same or close to it.
Yes I will agree that Hotmail's spam filtering has improved greatly over the years. But better than everyone else? I don't think so.
And do an number of the people that I'm seeing here that are saying they get spam in Hotmail and but not where ever else; let's just make it clear, if you talking about the spam that's in the Inbox then ok that's a bad thing but ok fair enough, but if you're talking about or including what is in the Spam folder then that's not fair since the spam filter is doing its job.
G4 and Comcast are such bastages
First they screw over TechTV and it's fans by dropping good shows, then screw up the formats of the shows they do keep, then just before Thanksgiving of Nov. 2004 they fire a ton of people mostly from what is left over from the original TechTV crew which also kills off more TechTV shows. Now they are screwing over Martin Sargent and Unscrewed by stealing the idea and name of "Girls Gone Wired".
Originally "Girls Gone Wired" (for those that didn't watch the show) was showing pics of hot girls that have their own web sites. Even if the pics showed nudity, in the TechTV days they would just blur out the good bits. Plus they would link to the sites, but if they were adult they would put up their own warning page.
After G4 got their dirty mitts onto the controls, not only could they not show the pics that just needed the blur but they also couldn't link to any of the sites. I don't think they were too thrilled with the Search Sperts with the cam girls taking off their clothes.
Joey "The Intern" once wrote on his block that MS is rumored to buy back TechTV and restore it to it's original glory. But seeing how things are going, and being a pessimist that I am, I'm not going to hold my breath that it'll happen, let along that it'll work out very well.
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Some time mid-last year we had the 10GB (or 15GB I forget which) plan and of course the mobile hot spot. Then added a line and switched to an unlimited data plan since it was offered, not knowing that the hot spot feature would be lost, no one mentioned that to us at the time. When in just a few hours we realized that hot spot was missing and switched back. My point being is that I don't see how this is new but for maybe that after 6 months or so they finally make it official.
Some time back I made another Hotmail account, set it up just like I do all of the others which back then meant turning on spam filtering which was off by default. I never used it any where and I still got spam. This is a completely unique name too, so it's not like anyone else could had it before me so that the spam I was getting was theirs. But not only did I get spam, at least 90% of it was in the Inbox so I still had to teach it that it was spam. Now you can argue that it was a long time ago and that Hotmail's spam filtering has improved a lot since then. Ok I'll give you that, however....
These days I use Gmail to get my Hotmail emails as well. Gmail only gets what is in the Inbox, nothing else. At least 2-3 times a week I Gmail gets, and filters, spam that was in my Hotmail's Inbox stuff that Hotmail should have filtered on it's own in fact in some cases when I got to that Hotmail account and look there are emails similar to the one that Gmail had to filter that Hotmail did catch and come in before the one that Gmail had to filter. And when I say similar, I mean the From address is close to the same, the Subjects are or close to the exact same, and even the body of the email is either the exact same or close to it.
Yes I will agree that Hotmail's spam filtering has improved greatly over the years. But better than everyone else? I don't think so.
And do an number of the people that I'm seeing here that are saying they get spam in Hotmail and but not where ever else; let's just make it clear, if you talking about the spam that's in the Inbox then ok that's a bad thing but ok fair enough, but if you're talking about or including what is in the Spam folder then that's not fair since the spam filter is doing its job.
Bet she was wishing there was a Sears in space now
Silly me, I thought the tip off was the fact it was called iHome
G4 and Comcast are such bastages First they screw over TechTV and it's fans by dropping good shows, then screw up the formats of the shows they do keep, then just before Thanksgiving of Nov. 2004 they fire a ton of people mostly from what is left over from the original TechTV crew which also kills off more TechTV shows. Now they are screwing over Martin Sargent and Unscrewed by stealing the idea and name of "Girls Gone Wired". Originally "Girls Gone Wired" (for those that didn't watch the show) was showing pics of hot girls that have their own web sites. Even if the pics showed nudity, in the TechTV days they would just blur out the good bits. Plus they would link to the sites, but if they were adult they would put up their own warning page. After G4 got their dirty mitts onto the controls, not only could they not show the pics that just needed the blur but they also couldn't link to any of the sites. I don't think they were too thrilled with the Search Sperts with the cam girls taking off their clothes. Joey "The Intern" once wrote on his block that MS is rumored to buy back TechTV and restore it to it's original glory. But seeing how things are going, and being a pessimist that I am, I'm not going to hold my breath that it'll happen, let along that it'll work out very well.