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Hotmail - are you having trouble too?
Posted: 25 Mar 2003, 23:36
by dead stars
Ssorry about asking this here but Hotmail is giving me real trouble. Anyone else?
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 02:21
by 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
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 05:46
by cyn
d00mw0lf wrote: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.
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 07:43
by hallucienate
cyn wrote:
Ummm. I dont exist.
Yay!!!!!
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 12:58
by 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".
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 13:03
by hallucienate
hotmail is trouble.
www.christianfunmal.com was fun until it got closed. I'll always miss abusing the address
horny@christiangirl.com
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 13:18
by 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...?
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 13:38
by 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)
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 13:53
by hallucienate
hallucienate@myheartland.co.uk would be cool.
I'll trade for an alias to a 3 letter .co.za doman of my choice
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 13:55
by 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.
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 13:56
by Quiff Boy
hallucienate wrote: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?
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 14:15
by Scardwel
Can I have one too?
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 14:19
by Black Shuck
Quiff Boy wrote:
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
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 14:19
by Quiff Boy
ok, thats 3 so far...
black shuk, hallucienate & scardwell
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 14:47
by Thea
out of all my email adresses my favorite will always be
bobby_dazzler@daviddickinson.zzn.com
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 15:02
by hallucienate
Quiff Boy wrote:
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?
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 15:15
by Quiff Boy
hallucienate wrote:Quiff Boy wrote:
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
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 15:20
by cyn
hallucienate wrote:cyn wrote:
Ummm. I dont exist.
Yay!!!!!
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 17:46
by 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
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 19:46
by Big Si
Please add
big_si@heartland.co.uk to the list!
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 19:47
by Big Si
Sorry! Please add
big_si@myheartland.co.uk to the list
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 19:53
by Quiff Boy
ok, 5 far
blackshuk
hallucienate
scardwell
petseri
big_si
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 20:03
by pikkrong
i'm also a hotmail user...
pikkrong@myheartland.co.uk wouldn't be bad at all
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 20:13
by Quiff Boy
6...
Posted: 26 Mar 2003, 20:14
by pikkrong
Petseri wrote:
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