Hotmail restricts outgoing e-mails
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 24 March 2003 - 17:03 · 20 comments & 1551 views
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#1 Posted by nic on 24 Mar 2003 - 17:05
- That seems resonable
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#2 Posted by Valkyre on 24 Mar 2003 - 17:08
- For a free service, this [I]does[/I] sound reasonable.
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#3 Posted by CoCoLUS on 24 Mar 2003 - 17:26
- who uses hotmail for personal mailing anyway?
but i agree, 100 mails should be enough even for a week 
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#4 Posted by Afroman on 24 Mar 2003 - 17:29
- darn right! i send like maybe! 2 a day.. MAYBE.. thats on a busy day.. and i don;t use hotmail.
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#5 Posted by creamhackered on 24 Mar 2003 - 17:30
- Yeh activewin + us reported on this a while ago
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#6 Posted by zionath on 24 Mar 2003 - 17:33
- i send 0 a day on hotmail
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#7 Posted by net-cruizer on 24 Mar 2003 - 17:43
- I send maybe 1 email a week, if that. That includes webmail and POP mail.
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#8 Posted by Monkey Man on 24 Mar 2003 - 17:57
- I have a hotmail account but i just use that for logging on to MSN Messenger so it dont make a difference to me
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#9 Posted by Avenger on 24 Mar 2003 - 18:14
- I don't send that many a day either, only 2 or 3 emails a day. Reasonable to me.
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#10 Posted by Cyco on 24 Mar 2003 - 18:39
- How does this solve the fact that the damn spammers sign up for a billion accounts when they spam? This is going in the right direction though so it may allow me to unblock @hotmail on my anti-spam server (yes I get so much spam I need an entire server dedicated to block it).
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#11 Posted by werejag on 24 Mar 2003 - 19:00
- saw this coming. what next ?
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#12 Posted by Darkness2k on 24 Mar 2003 - 19:16
- Limit it to 0 emails a day... then I won't get ANY spam from Hotmail at all... Seriously though... anyone thats sending 100+ emails a day will most likely only be a spammer only and should be removed from the system, perhaps banning the IP address and specific account names
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#13 Posted by Chicane-UK on 24 Mar 2003 - 19:48
- Yep - seems like a good move there by Hotmail.. spam is getting seriously out of control, so measures like this will definately help.
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#14 Posted by Trust on 24 Mar 2003 - 20:01
- is ok
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#15 Posted by omega on 25 Mar 2003 - 00:55
- One way to stop spam is to turn it to a subscription base. Only those who pay will get no limits on sending emails. Besides, if they spam, MSN can always charge it on their credit card for any spam they send out. But one problem can arise from this is the fact of credit card fraud. So, there isn't really one magic bullet to solve the problem of spam. Unless it is done like how regular postage is done, pay-per-email type of thing.
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#16 Posted by btallack on 25 Mar 2003 - 01:30
- On my regular e-mail, i barely even send any e-mail. This seems far more than reasonable. If I were MS i would consider limiting it to 50.
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#17 Posted by altezza on 25 Mar 2003 - 02:30
- Since it's a free service...it's okay although the greedy 2 mb storage is annoying just as well as junk emails
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#18 Posted by fangtu on 25 Mar 2003 - 04:02
- reasonable, but it's still better without restrictions....but what more can we ask from a FREE service of MICROSOFT?
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#19 Posted by Edge on 25 Mar 2003 - 20:37
- About time! Now drop it to 50.
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#20 Posted by omega on 25 Mar 2003 - 22:23
- I finally got some more info about the hotmail outgoing limits. This limit does NOT affect those who subscribe to MSN 8.0 or MSN Extra Storage Plan.
Imposing rate limits on e-mail usage is fairly common among Internet service providers as a way to stop bulk messages before they're ferried on their networks, anti-spam advocates say. But as effective as it can be to trip up potential spammers, it can also occasionally frustrate legitimate mailers who may be sending, for example, a party invitation or political message to friends. Other Web-based mail services including Yahoo also have outbound rate limits.
MSN has been on a tear of late fighting junk mail, as the amount of it bogging down e-mail networks and subscriber inboxes has grown to outlandish proportions. (ISPs estimate that it has risen by more than 500 percent in the past 18 months.) The company, which has nearly 120 million e-mail customers through its Hotmail and MSN Internet services, has bolstered internal tactics to thwart spam in recent months above and beyond employing third-party software to filter junk. These include operating an internal "blocklist" of known spammers whose mail should be barred from customer in-boxes.
And... as was reported a week or so ago on Neowin, and now confirmed by cnet...
MSN Hotmail has tightened restrictions on daily outbound messages sent by subscribers, a tactic it says will help curb spam.
Microsoft on Friday said that Hotmail subscribers are now limited to sending only 100 messages a day "in an effort to prevent spammers from using Hotmail to spread spam," said Lisa Gurry, MSN lead product manager. The change, made last week, should affect only about 1 percent of its nearly 110 million worldwide users, based on historical usage data, Gurry said.
"The higher the limit is, the more likely that the service can be used for spam, so we found that 99 percent of Hotmail users would find this new limit perfectly acceptable," she said.