Hotmail - are you having trouble too?

[dead stars]

Ssorry about asking this here but Hotmail is giving me real trouble. Anyone else?

[Thea]

earlier it told me i didn't exist, then that hotmail itsself didn't exist....
half an hour later it was back working normally

[cyn]

earlier it told me i didn't exist, then that hotmail itsself didn't exist....
half an hour later it was back working normally

Ummm. I dont exist.

[hallucienate]

Ummm. I dont exist.

Yay!!!!!

[Quiff Boy]

maybe it was something to do with them introducing this? a few teething troubles, maybe?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29925.html

Hotmail caps email
By Tim Richardson
Posted: 25/03/2003 at 11:38 GMT


Microsoft is capping the amount of email punters can send using their Hotmail accounts in a bid to crack down on spam.

In a statement, the company said: "In an effort to prevent spammers from using MSN Hotmail to spread spam, MSN Hotmail recently began further limiting the number of outgoing messages a user can send each day.

"MSN is strongly committed to helping stop the widespread problem of spam and this change is one way we are preventing spammers from using Hotmail to spread spam."

No one is more shocked by this announcement than El Reg. Ten days ago, following an enquiry from one of our readers, we asked Microsoft specifically about whether it was limiting the amount of email that can be sent via its Hotmail service.

An official spokesperson for the company denied it had introduced any new limits and insisted that the only limit in place was an existing cap of 500 a day, which, we were told, had been in place for some time. There was no story.

Now, Microsoft has come clean and admitted that its new anti-spam email-limiting policy has been in place since the middle of the month.

Microsoft has apologised for any misunderstanding and denies it deliberately misled us. Whatever.

So, what is the new limit it's imposed? A Reuters report quotes MSN's lead product manager, Lisa Gurry, as saying that punters will be barred from sending emails to more than 100 e-mail addresses in a 24-hour period.

In contrast, the MSN spokesperson on this side of the pond has declined repeatedly to put a figure on the limit, except so say that it would not affect "99.9 per cent of its users".

[hallucienate]

hotmail is trouble. www.christianfunmal.com was fun until it got closed. I'll always miss abusing the address horny@christiangirl.com

[Quiff Boy]

i might think about setting up full pop3 "@myheartland.co.uk" email addresses for the first ten lucky users to ask, on this thread

note: PMs do not count. your reply must be on this thread.

and your email address will be <your heartland username>@myheartland.co.uk

hence: quiffboy@myheartland.co.uk etc...

so...?

[Black Shuck]

Yeah, if it's not gonna be too much trouble, I'd love to do it!

I'm on hotmail, and I'm sick of getting stupid messages from hotmail itself (just as bad as spam, in my opinion)

[hallucienate]

hallucienate@myheartland.co.uk would be cool.

I'll trade for an alias to a 3 letter .co.za doman of my choice

[hallucienate]

actually if someone with a web mail address who would actually use it wants it, then I can live without. I got more than enough addresses as it is.

[Quiff Boy]

actually if someone with a web mail address who would actually use it wants it, then I can live without. I got more than enough addresses as it is.

hal: you want a full pop3 box? or just mail forwarding?

shuk: i assume you want full pop3 yeah?

[Scardwel]

Can I have one too?

[Black Shuck]

shuk: i assume you want full pop3 yeah?

I don't know what that is!
If I could have the address blackshuk@myheartland.co.uk that would be swellegant

[Quiff Boy]

ok, thats 3 so far...

black shuk, hallucienate & scardwell

[Thea]

out of all my email adresses my favorite will always be bobby_dazzler@daviddickinson.zzn.com

[hallucienate]

hal: you want a full pop3 box? or just mail forwarding?

POP3, IMAP, forwarding I do them all. forwarding would suite me fine. Forwarding it onto my Heartland contact address will work fine.

You do realize you're opening yourself to the terrible world of e-mail support?

[Quiff Boy]

hal: you want a full pop3 box? or just mail forwarding?

POP3, IMAP, forwarding I do them all. forwarding would suite me fine. Forwarding it onto my Heartland contact address will work fine.

You do realize you're opening yourself to the terrible world of e-mail support?

noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

actually, the only email support i will offer is this url:

http://faq.oneandone.co.uk/email_and_we ... index.html

[cyn]

Ummm. I dont exist.

Yay!!!!!

[Petseri]

If you do not mind a Petseri@myheartland.uk.co, please add me to the list.

By the way, has anyone heart from lachert lately? We were in the middle of a trade, but now all email to him bounces back and my PM to him has not been answered.

Martin

[Big Si]

Please add big_si@heartland.co.uk to the list!

[Big Si]

Sorry! Please add big_si@myheartland.co.uk to the list

[Quiff Boy]

ok, 5 far

blackshuk
hallucienate
scardwell
petseri
big_si

[pikkrong]

i'm also a hotmail user...
pikkrong@myheartland.co.uk wouldn't be bad at all

[Quiff Boy]

6...

[pikkrong]

By the way, has anyone heart from lachert lately? We were in the middle of a trade, but now all email to him bounces back and my PM to him has not been answered.

Martin

i'd also want to know anything about old good Lachert.
all that i know:
- he seems to be very nice person - when we traded first time he added me some extra bonus stuff (a Björk bootleg for my wife and 2 Woody Allen films on CD-Rs) and didn't count them as trading subjects;
- we started to trade last time in winter but it ceased... once i got an appologizing e-mail where he explained that he had had big problems in his personal life and promised to send these things soon;
- now my e-mails to him return to me...
i don't worry so much about those videos he promised (he has always been very nice person) but about himself