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Subject: [OM] Re: OT - H*tmail
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 06:43:43 +0000
I should tend to agree with Steve.  If you do stick with Hotmail, why 
not access it through an email client like Thunderbird (mozilla.org) or 
Eudora (eudora.com)?  It should make it much easier to do so.

Chris

On 19 Feb 2005, at 03:20, Steve Dropkin wrote:

> Jeff Keller wrote:
>> I use a H*tmail account for this group. <snip>
>>
>> Recently I'm constantly challenged to enter hard to read letters to 
>> prove
>> that I'm not a machine. <snip> Does anyone have any tips/experience?
>
> Seriously? Dump H*tmail. If you use it only for a few email lists (or,
> worse, only for this one), you're going through a lot of pain to use 
> it.
> Unfortunately, Microsoft takes H*tmail security as seriously as it does
> security for everything else it offers, and H*tmail has become so
> compromised that some ISPs simply block mail from the entire domain. I
> do that on my mail client, because, with a few exceptions (like your
> email and an XGF's email), there's been nothing from H*tmail I've 
> wanted
> to read.
>
> Free email is available from other sources, like yahoo and even some
> affinity groups (university alumni associations, special-interest
> groups, etc.). Some email packages will let you treat those servers 
> just
> like any other email address.
>
> I'm not trying to sound mean; just suggesting that H*tmail is not worth
> the problems.
>
> Steve
>


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