me101 Veteran Posted July 20, 2001 Veteran Share Posted July 20, 2001 The new MSN Hotmail, cute as it might be, has spawned some serious complaints from long time users, writes ZDNET News Hotmail was upgraded Thursday to a new MSN-looking design, with new buttons, icons and tabs. The Web site also introduced a new junk mail filter and added two languages--Dutch and Swedish. In addition, the service has a quick address-list function that provides Hotmail members with fast access to their five most frequently used contacts. That has not stopped users complaining about the new service. "I have used Hotmail as my main Web-based e-mail for some time, although now it looks like I am going to have to change that," Norman Hansen of Concord, Calif., said in an e-mail to CNET News.com. Hansen complained of minuscule font sizes and crashes to his computer when he tried to print. He also expressed irritation at the amount of unrelated content such as the ever-present MSN banner. Another Hotmail member who has been using the service for several years agreed with Hansen, saying that while the new service is "more sophisticated, and everything is much more accessible," the automatic signature and other new features annoyed him. "My biggest nightmare is that I'm going to get locked out of Hotmail, or I'm going to wake up and they're going to be charging me," he said. Read more @ ZDNET News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
me101 Veteran Posted July 20, 2001 Author Veteran Share Posted July 20, 2001 Also spotted over at The Register, that they too have been having some problems with the new Hotmail... When we checked this morning (our setting is on "high"), it had found four pieces of spam and retained two proper emails. So full marks. However, one reader got in touch to tell us: "Even with the spam filter set to high, I have already been offered a "university" degree, "get a bigger penis in 10 days", Viagra, a book on how to be successful with the opposite sex and 10 million email addresses for $10. Oh and how I can make a million by buying a $5 book." So not everyone is impressed. However, what we have learnt is that you should never send an email with an all-caps subject line. We tried it out with two identical emails - one in caps, one normal. Caps email goes straight into junk mail, the other worked as normal. People are also a little annoyed though that full URL links sent to a Hotmail account are bent into a redirect URL that goes through an MS server. Basically what this does is open a new window with the site but within MSN when you click on it. You can read more from The Register Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted July 20, 2001 Veteran Share Posted July 20, 2001 It's too confusive.. I like the old design :D Ryancoolround 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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