Hotmail gets into the act

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REDMOND, Wash., June 24, 2004 - MSN® Hotmail®, the world's most popular
free Web-based e-mail service, will undergo a major upgrade, delivering
customers world-class e-mail protection as well as enhanced storage to
satisfy all their needs. Starting in early July, MSN will roll out free
e-mail anti-virus protection to all the 170 million MSN Hotmail
customers worldwide, making MSN Hotmail the only free global e-mail
service to both scan and clean incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses
and worms before they can enter a customer's inbox. MSN also announced
it will bring increased storage - 250MB inboxes - to free MSN Hotmail
customers

http://tinyurl.com/ywneh
 
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:14:30 -0400, in alt.comp.freeware, the personage of
Michael Forsythe <[email protected]>, courtesy of Message-id
and wondering whence the lambs & piglets said:
REDMOND, Wash., June 24, 2004 - MSN® Hotmail®, the world's most popular
free Web-based e-mail service, will undergo a major upgrade, delivering
customers world-class e-mail protection as well as enhanced storage to
satisfy all their needs. Starting in early July, MSN will roll out free
e-mail anti-virus protection to all the 170 million MSN Hotmail
customers worldwide, making MSN Hotmail the only free global e-mail
service to both scan and clean incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses
and worms before they can enter a customer's inbox. MSN also announced
it will bring increased storage - 250MB inboxes - to free MSN Hotmail
customers

http://tinyurl.com/ywneh
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250 Mb for "free" (non-paying) users? G-Mail must have the troika of Bill,
Steve, Paul running *scared*.....
 
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* Reply by Jack D. Russell, Sr. <[email protected]>
* Newsgroup: alt.comp.freeware
* Reply to: All; "Vrodok the Troll" <[email protected]>
* Date: 24 Jun 2004 08:08:12 -0500
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MF>> REDMOND, Wash., June 24, 2004 - MSN® Hotmail®, the world's most
MF>> popular free Web-based e-mail service, will undergo a major
MF>> upgrade, delivering customers world-class e-mail protection as
MF>> well as enhanced storage to satisfy all their needs. Starting in
MF>> early July, MSN will roll out free e-mail anti-virus protection
MF>> to all the 170 million MSN Hotmail customers worldwide, making
MF>> MSN Hotmail the only free global e-mail service to both scan and
MF>> clean incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses and worms before
MF> they can enter a customer's inbox. MSN also announced it will
MF> bring increased storage - 250MB inboxes - to free MSN Hotmail
MF> customers
MF>
MF> http://tinyurl.com/ywneh

VtT> 250 Mb for "free" (non-paying) users? G-Mail must have the
VtT> troika of Bill, Steve, Paul running *scared*.....

Yep...MSFT/MSN "Innovation" at it's best. <BG>
 
Jack said:
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* Reply by Jack D. Russell, Sr. <[email protected]>
* Newsgroup: alt.comp.freeware
* Reply to: All; "Vrodok the Troll" <[email protected]>
* Date: 24 Jun 2004 08:08:12 -0500
* Subj: Re: Hotmail gets into the act
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VtT> 250 Mb for "free" (non-paying) users? G-Mail must have the
VtT> troika of Bill, Steve, Paul running *scared*.....

Yep...MSFT/MSN "Innovation" at it's best. <BG>
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Well had MSN offered it first , the others would have cried foul and hualed
MS into court ......... 8^)

MM
 
Michael said:
REDMOND, Wash., June 24, 2004 - MSN® Hotmail®, the world's most popular
free Web-based e-mail service, will undergo a major upgrade, delivering
customers world-class e-mail protection as well as enhanced storage to
satisfy all their needs. Starting in early July, MSN will roll out free
e-mail anti-virus protection to all the 170 million MSN Hotmail
customers worldwide, making MSN Hotmail the only free global e-mail
service to both scan and clean incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses
and worms before they can enter a customer's inbox. MSN also announced
it will bring increased storage - 250MB inboxes - to free MSN Hotmail
customers

http://tinyurl.com/ywneh
Click to expand...

Yep, they're following closely on the heels of Gmail and Yahoo. I have
a free Yahoo account and today when I tried to forward a message, the
button wouldn't work either in IE or Mozilla. I tried to send Yahoo an
email about the problem, but the "send" button wouldn't work either. I
tried calling them long distance ON MY DIME, and after a lengthy bout
in "Options land", the automated answering machine hung up on me!

At that point I called it quits.

I hope MS does a better job "upgrading" Hotmail than Yahoo did with
their service.
 
And said:
Yep, they're following closely on the heels of Gmail and
Yahoo. I have a free Yahoo account and today when I tried
to forward a message, the button wouldn't work either in IE
or Mozilla. I tried to send Yahoo an email about the
problem, but the "send" button wouldn't work either. I
tried calling them long distance ON MY DIME, and after a
lengthy bout in "Options land", the automated answering
machine hung up on me!

At that point I called it quits.

I hope MS does a better job "upgrading" Hotmail than Yahoo
did with their service.
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If you're using Mozilla, remove the yahoo-associated cookies
and try it again.

--
:-) Christopher Jahn
:-(

http://home.comcast.net/~xjahn/Main.html

Rose tint my world and keep me safe from the trouble and
pain...
 
Christopher said:
And it came to pass that John Corliss wrote:




If you're using Mozilla, remove the yahoo-associated cookies
and try it again.
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Christopher,
I just tried that and no difference. Also, I should add that
yesterday in IE I put all the Yahoo sites in the Trusted Zone. *That*
should have worked, but didn't. The buttons were still dead. And
because Yahoo makes it so impossible to get in touch with them, they
will have to figure out why they're losing business on their own.
 
John Corliss said:
Christopher,
I just tried that and no difference. Also, I should add that
yesterday in IE I put all the Yahoo sites in the Trusted Zone. *That*
should have worked, but didn't. The buttons were still dead. And
because Yahoo makes it so impossible to get in touch with them, they
will have to figure out why they're losing business on their own.
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BAD! BAD! BAD! Do not put Yahoo.com in a trusted zone, ever. You're only
inviting trouble. My recommendation is since Yahoo obviously went thru a
major upgrade (esp. on email) then just give them time to work the bugs out
but it won't be overnight. I certainly do *NOT* recommend putting any Yahoo
or MSN sites into trusted zones (esp. when their privacy policy clear states
that they collect personal information). Your safe bet is to leave them
alone in the internet zone.
 
Michael Forsythe said:
REDMOND, Wash., June 24, 2004 - MSN® Hotmail®, the world's most popular
free Web-based e-mail service, will undergo a major upgrade, delivering
customers world-class e-mail protection as well as enhanced storage to
satisfy all their needs. Starting in early July, MSN will roll out free
e-mail anti-virus protection to all the 170 million MSN Hotmail
customers worldwide, making MSN Hotmail the only free global e-mail
service to both scan and clean incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses
and worms before they can enter a customer's inbox. MSN also announced
it will bring increased storage - 250MB inboxes - to free MSN Hotmail
customers

http://tinyurl.com/ywneh
Click to expand...



Gee, google really shook up the industry. It reminds me of when Carl's Jr
restaurants here in California started offering free refills for soft
drinks: everyone had to follow suit.

Yahoo, Hotmail, and even my ISP's e-mail has boosted storage to 100mb.

Rach
http://scootgirl.com/
 
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