Msn/Hotmail Ups Storage Space

[tomwarren Veteran]

:yes: Or a non-legit email...

It's legit, honestly.

[alfador]

It's legit, honestly.

Time will tell. The press should know this evening, according to this screenshot.

[GNRambo]

It's legit, honestly.

For trues?!?!

[tomwarren Veteran]

For trues?!?!

Yes....for trues....heh

[Deaf Spacker]

Yay more space for spam :p

[detn8r]

oo.. bigger inbox.. more opportunity for hotmail to sell your email address for more SPAM. screw MSN, I'm quite happy with Yahoo thanks.

[Guest Dan C]

oo.. bigger inbox.. more opportunity for hotmail to sell your email address for more SPAM. screw MSN, I'm quite happy with Yahoo thanks.

Hotmail doesn't ****ing sell your addresses.

[alfador]

Yeah that's what I'm saying. Legit or not (I know cream is a good source), the language in that letter is horrible.

Some of the sentences aren't capitalized

"alot" should be 2 words

"calls of customers" from customers, maybe?

"no expire date" again with the bad language translation

[detn8r]

Uh huh. Can you please explain as to why when I created a hotmail alias for a web forum, not 10 seconds after setting up the bulk mail folders options I received 6 SPAM emails? (and this was BEFORE I gave anyone or any site the email) Is there proof that hotmail doesn?t sell it? Or is it said ?we don?t? just like many of the spyware companies that conclude that they don?t use spyware.

[ryanmcv]

Uh huh. Can you please explain as to why when I created a hotmail alias for a web forum, not 10 seconds after setting up the bulk mail folders options I received 6 SPAM emails? (and this was BEFORE I gave anyone or any site the email) Is there proof that hotmail doesn?t sell it? Or is it said ?we don?t? just like many of the spyware companies that conclude that they don?t use spyware.

Your e-mail address was unfortunately generated by a spam bot which then started spam:)ng you. :)

[hobsgrg]

the sheer speed proves that it's not Microsoft just selling it, even they wouldn't be able to sell it on that quickly and for someone else to start using it to spam.

[Bearded Kirklander]

Uh huh. Can you please explain as to why when I created a hotmail alias for a web forum, not 10 seconds after setting up the bulk mail folders options I received 6 SPAM emails? (and this was BEFORE I gave anyone or any site the email) Is there proof that hotmail doesn?t sell it? Or is it said ?we don?t? just like many of the spyware companies that conclude that they don?t use spyware.

Did you set your options so that you indicated you did NOT want to recieve special offers by Hotmail partners? I believe you have to OPT OUT of those. Then you should not get much of anything, especially if you set your spam filter to the extra high level (just below exclusive).

[Narlzac85]

Personally I love hotmail, easy access, integration with MS products, even POP3 access with a little extra help from another program. I have NEVER gotten any spam, only the occasional MSN offer or Hotmail alert. This increase can only make it that much better. WOOHOO!! :)

[detn8r]

Of course I opted out the optional sponsors. And last time I checked, MSN didn't have Viagra, Mortgage, and females names Brittany, and Volga living in the Netherlands who are wanting me to get down and dirty while I watch them screw barn yard animals sponsors. :pinch:

[Shaymuss]

Yeah that's what I'm saying. Legit or not (I know cream is a good source), the language in that letter is horrible.

Some of the sentences aren't capitalized

"alot" should be 2 words

"calls of customers" from customers, maybe?

"no expire date" again with the bad language translation

I am going to agree here, it seems like the language in the letter is horrible, I noticed this myself but wasn't too sure on whether to post it or not, I thought that it may have been something just minor.

You never know..? :ninja:

[Bearded Kirklander]

Of course I opted out the optional sponsors. And last time I checked, MSN didn't have Viagra, Mortgage, and females names Brittany, and Volga living in the Netherlands who are wanting me to get down and dirty while I watch them screw barn yard animals sponsors. :pinch:

Some of the email spam is blindly sent to all hotmail users, regardless. I'm not sure of all the details, but I do know that once I opted out of everything (I double checked and found it had not stuck) and raised my spam protection level, it decreased my spam by over 95%. Plus, I don't stay logged in at the hotmail site. I use Outlook Express 6 to read hotmail without having to login and allow some of those "trapper" applications to read things on screen when you surf. I also surf with all scripting disabled by default.

I'm not sure what up, but I know that Hotmail has gotten better over time, especially after adjusting the settings. It may not be for everyone, but it works ok for me, and if they can up the storage and attachment size, I'm all for it. :)

[Guest Dan C]

Of course I opted out the optional sponsors. And last time I checked, MSN didn't have Viagra, Mortgage, and females names Brittany, and Volga living in the Netherlands who are wanting me to get down and dirty while I watch them screw barn yard animals sponsors. :pinch:

Lmao :/

[Nollog]

If the email has the little icon, it's official.

Unless someone knows how to put those icons in there...

I still hate Hotmail, they have adds on every single page you open.

Gmail is amazingly ad-free. The only adds being the text adds you get taking up 2% of the right side of the screen when you open an email ( Sorry, when you open a Gmail )

To BK:

I tried that and it just makes my computer fill up with SPAM.

Edited June 23, 2004 by Nollog

[Bearded Kirklander]

I still hate Hotmail, they have adds on every single page you open.

Again, if you use Outlook Express 6 to check your hotmail, you don't see any ads, have to log onto any site or anything like that. It checks just like a POP3 account. I'm still stunned that more people don't seem to know about this. Baffling.

[bonobozoot]

I am going to take creamhackered's post with a grain of salt. I dont believe that Hotmail would mis-spell their letter to their users but if cream says so, i believe that Hotmail has increased email space for its users.

[Nollog]

LoL

"There will be an official release to the press tonight in regards to these changes. until that official release, this must not be disclosed the public."

[mihir]

Again, if you use Outlook Express 6 to check your hotmail, you don't see any ads, have to log onto any site or anything like that. It checks just like a POP3 account. I'm still stunned that more people don't seem to know about this. Baffling.

it's just that http access is so slow with outlook express

[Bearded Kirklander]

LoL

"There will be an official release to the press tonight in regards to these changes. until that official release, this must not be disclosed the public."

I hope we are not being made fools of. That would suck. :(

On the HTTP access, it is wicked fast on my system. It checks every like 5 or 10 minutes and takes hardly any time at all to check my accounts. I have one account for forums and one for newsgroups. Both usually check very fast. Nearly as fast as my regular ISP. I'm not sure why it would be slow on some systems and not on others. Odd stuff. Sorry for your trouble.

[Nollog]

56k modem and an inbox of 900 messages full of SPAM

That was my problem with using outlook express...

[Original_]

I am going to take creamhackered's post with a grain of salt. I dont believe that Hotmail would mis-spell their letter to their users but if cream says so, i believe that Hotmail has increased email space for its users.

It's not a message to customers but an internal message to support staff.

That said, with all the egregious errors (including the text meg instead of mb) I would say that it is fake.