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« Reply #15 on: 29 October 2002, 10:39 »
Spyware in Mozilla? Not likely since it's open source. Now Netscape might be another story, and you can bet it's true in IE. And don't listen to anything Screen Savers or TechTV have to say, they are owned by the cofounder of Microsoft. Although they did have Richard Stallman on the other day. But I think it was more of a way to show how much of a goof he is rather than getting his important message across. They used to do a LOT of Linux, that is until Paul Allen bought them out.
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« Reply #16 on: 29 October 2002, 12:23 »
quote:
Originally posted by Got Root?:
I heard someone mention Mozilla... Ive heard they are nutorious for using Spyware in that product... is that true? I heard it on The Screen Savers [ www.thescreensavers.com ] on TechTV [ www.techtv.com ] Just wanted to know if it was true..


nutorious?

sounds like it might have been a joke. mozilla is the least likely browser to ever contain spyware, for the reasons that void main just gave.
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« Reply #17 on: 29 October 2002, 18:59 »
Hey guys, do you think the Hotmail spam filter is either very shoddy, or randomly fails to work intentionally?
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« Reply #18 on: 29 October 2002, 23:34 »
quote:

Posted by lazygamer:

Hey guys, do you think the Hotmail spam filter is either very shoddy, or randomly fails to work intentionally?



That's a bit of a rhetorical question, isn't it? "Microsoft" and "fails to work" are two parameters that compute very nicely.

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« Reply #19 on: 4 November 2002, 21:49 »
thats why i asked. it wasnt a joke, but now it sounds like one.
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« Reply #20 on: 4 November 2002, 13:46 »
i think microsoft's policy of hiring people who have not lived long enough to gain any skills, or a social life, let alone the ability to give a shit, is a factor in how shoddy their services are. (they don't make software now, didn't you know? they make services.)
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« Reply #21 on: 27 November 2002, 22:24 »
So I can't find the link for the old net based mail comparison I was doing. It is gone to the archive in the sky, so I'll resurect this one as it is vaguely relevant.

For the record the largest amount of spam I received was 973 in one day (if memory serves it was 2nd October), and in case you need details, it was exactly the same piece of spam, and it completely filled my account, I guess more was sent but hotmail wanted to charge me money to receive that additional spam.

So I am personnally convinced that hotmail must sell on e-mail addresses, or have extremely lax security measures, because even the account that came in second (Verizon on my old DSL) received less in a month that an average day of hotmail. And the verizon account got used as a internet posted CV address - so you can imagine how much started to come through there.

Now I went back today and lo and behold - my time has expired and I have less than 30 days to activate it (I let my others go as they were just spam monitors) - but this one holds a special place in my heart as the straw that broke the camels back in my hatred for M$. So should I keep it, should I use it to fight M$ or just let it go, my final link, the last hold of M$ directly on my life.
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« Reply #22 on: 28 November 2002, 04:53 »
use it for a junk mail drop box

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« Reply #23 on: 28 November 2002, 10:06 »
Amazingly enough. I used hotmail for an online venture, and I still check it quite often. The lack of spam amazes me. Esp. since I plastered the address in several places. Meanwhile, my angelfire address get's at least 8 pages of spam a day...   :mad:

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« Reply #24 on: 29 November 2002, 15:59 »
quote:
Originally posted by TB:
While we're on the subject of hotmail, i encountered a very peculiar thing with it today. Today I finally cast off the shackles of IE and moved to Mozilla (god I love ad-free web browsing), and I had to fire off a quick email from my hotmail account. However I noticed one small difference - in Mozilla the Add/Remove attachments button was missing in the compose mail window........but it was there when I accessed hotmail using IE. Has anybody else encountered anything similar? Oh well, I guess I'll just finally abandon the hotmail account completely and rely totally upon my yahoo one (spam free for nearly 3 years and counting!)

[ October 28, 2002: Message edited by: TB ]



The rich toolbar is also missing. Feels like ms owns teh fooken net :/
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« Reply #25 on: 6 December 2002, 04:02 »
I have a simple solution for the hotmail problem: DON'T USE THE BLOODY THING!!!!

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