A way to prove M$ Lame, for non-technical types

[Chooco]

my ISP account has spam because my bro can't grasp the concept of a mailing list. "oh email of pictures of R1's, kick ass"
now we get tons of spam because a combo of my bro and dad sign up for every piece of crap out there.

[AlexMax]

quote:Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
Hotmail is absolutely great.  I love it and use it every day, and I get no spam either.  The MSN messenger even notifies you when mail is in your inbox.

You are lying through your teeth.

Either that, or you think that your 'friends' are doing you a favor by sending you email with advertisements.  How thoughtful!

Christ...that last statement was just a long shot.  I vote lying.

Either way, I am proud to have used a Yahoo Mail account for a long time, and have only gotten spam because I use it for mailing lists when people insist I give them an email address.  I now use Zelda Classic Email to check my roadrunner account and I have had no problems with it.

And for times I don't feel like using a web browser to check email, I use Opera's internal Mail client.  Nice and easy. ^_^

[ June 26, 2002: Message edited by: AlexMax ]

[Calum]

i hate all web based email they are all shit. they all get spam or cack up, go slow, then disappear without warning, consigning your messages to the void and forcing you to write to all your friends (again) to tell them your new email address when you finally get another one that looks like it might work. This is after you frantically try to find written/other record of all your friends' email addresses after the current list got trashed when your last email address went down the pan.

Looks like my new account at linuxmail.org, while spamless so far, might crash and burn after only one day. At least my previous one (the despised eboxmail.net) lasted a few weeks before disappearing without trace (the whole server, not just my account), but linuxmail.org has been ludicrously slow, and refusing connections all day now.

Re: yahoo and hotmail, sorry both crap, both full of spam, hotmail has the edge though.

Bigmailbox wins for spam though as it has NO filtering/blocking facilities at all.

[Master of Reality]

i see you must have gotten back into your account Calum.... I will still catch up to you in posts.

[foobar]

quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:
Yahoo gives me 6mb of space for emails, while I hear hotmail only provides 2 mb.

I thought hotmail offers you a fubar 256k of space.

Calum, i still want to send you my music, apparently
you didn't get them, because as you said, your emailbox account + server vanished.
Do you already have a (pop) email account ?

I think so many people use hotmail because:

 - (Most forecoming reason  virtually everbody uses it, especially in my class of humans, about 15 to 18 years of age.
 - I think hotmail has lots of nice features, especially when you really want to use MSN and haven't heard of windoze, M$ and MSN.
But, as we know from M$, it has the low-down tactics of giving you no more than 256k of space,
and try to ban other browsers than IE, and many more. Most people really don't want to hear this ....

i don't get it   :confused:

[ June 26, 2002: Message edited by: -=f00bar=- ]

[Calum]

i'd love to get your music, but eboxmail died, i set up an account at linuxmail.org immediately, and now it's fucking died too, after one fucking day.

I don't have any decent email address at the moment so i'll just have to wait.

While i'm here, i do not know much about networking, and that includes email. Can i somehow get my email sent to my free server space, and collect it using an email program? if so how?

[the_black_angel]

Spam? what is spam? i get no spam at all.

I have a email address i set up to test the service , it has currently been active for 2 years, i do not use this account for anything. it has nothing in it at all.

I have had hotmail and yahoo emails and after one day they both started to get Spammed.

By the way this email service is available for apple uses only sorry its called itools  

[choasforages]

hmmm, apple users only, would my powerbook 1400 get me in the club???

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by choasforages:
hmmm, apple users only, would my powerbook 1400 get me in the club???

Yes, if you have OS 9.2 or higher. You can sign up for iTools on Apple's website. May I say it is a kick ass service! You get a website, get to use iDisk, and mac.com e-mail.

And it is all totaly privat. Apple is BIG on provacy and don't sell info or give it away lest you ask. Read their policy.

I use iTools all the time and never do I suffer ill effects.

[choasforages]

what about 9.1, cuase mac os 9.2 wont run on it

[the_black_angel]

Mac OS 9 and above all work with itools perfectly.

just go to http://itools.mac.com/ and click on the red sign up button and your ready

you start with 20mb but you can buy more space if you want $1=1mb up too 1Gb

they have great servers for everything (including web servers) - have fun

[choasforages]

aaagh damit, i have to have the mac hooked up to the internet to sign up. and i don't have $50 for an ethernet card. owell

[pkd_lives]

Thought you may like an update. Well I decided to use the hotmail account for something useful, and posted it on the web as a contact in my recent job hunt. It got blitzed with e-mails for services I really don't need.

Then this weekend it got hijacked or something, I started receiving spam from MYSELF. Well it appears someone hi-jacked it and used it to spam or something, so now I shall never log in again, and I have almost got my third conversion away from hotmail, he is wavering but the tilt is deffinatley going my way not M$.