davidpaj Posted July 25, 2002 Share Posted July 25, 2002 ""For three months, freelance writer Lydia Zajc updated friends and family on her adventures in Southeast Asia by sending detailed messages from her Hotmail account. She described munching noodles and buns on the streets of China and watching monks receive alms in Laos in a series of e-mails she planned to repurpose for travel writing pieces when she returned home. But on Wednesday, Zajc, who had saved the messages in her Hotmail Sent file, logged on to find that her e-mails had evaporated into thin air. "I literally broke down in tears," said Zajc, who now lives in Newfoundland, Canada, and for the past 24 hours has been furiously e-mailing recipients of the messages, hoping some of them saved her missives." More Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted July 25, 2002 Share Posted July 25, 2002 If they were so important, then why didn't she save them to her hard drive, or a website instead. I mean - its a lot more reliable and safer then storing them in a sent-email folder. Edit: Damn Typos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomoverride Posted July 25, 2002 Share Posted July 25, 2002 boo hoo I didnt save them locally in a text doc. or upload them to a website? She should have created a message board and posted messages to it herserf. or a website. Jebus. Well good luck and welcome to money hungry companies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxBoy Posted July 26, 2002 Share Posted July 26, 2002 She has nobody to blame but herself for using such a crappy Email Service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulstorm Posted July 26, 2002 Share Posted July 26, 2002 To me, the point of this article is for users to keep UPDATED on notifications from your service providers!! C'mon people, use your brains. I use MSN Mail exclusively with Outlook (tho I may switch to MSN 8), and save messages locally. I only have my 2mb inbox quota for now...have no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinh Posted July 26, 2002 Share Posted July 26, 2002 Ahh well, hotmail needs to make its money from somewhere. Bad story but yeah, she has a learnt a lesson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tajddin Posted July 26, 2002 Share Posted July 26, 2002 She could have instead created an inbox folder, then transfered her emails into that folder. That's what I do if I'd like to save them online. I mean, the first thing Hotmail does to conserve space is delete the items in your sent emails, it makes sense to create a folder where it won't even delete anything from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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