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Apr 9th, 2001, 12:48 PM
Pix

Yep another moan from me I'm afraid! Anyway, here goes....

....Apparently what you send in Hotmail and MSN isn't private. This means that if you had a good idea and Microsoft liked it, they could nick it off you and there's nothing you can do about it. They've been made to change their terms and conditions in America to warn people, but I'm soooo not happy. I thought whatever I sent was private. I don't want that nosy lot at Microsoft reading anything of mine! I swear they're trying to take over the world or something!
Apr 9th, 2001, 01:00 PM
parksie

Simple solution: Don't use Hotmail :)

I recommend www.myrealbox.com as they're pretty fast and not many people use them :D
Apr 9th, 2001, 01:01 PM
Pix

Ta Parksie! Good solution - sod Hotmail :)
Apr 9th, 2001, 01:16 PM
chrisjk

You can't beat having a proper POP3 account with an ISP. No snooping, no stupid things appended to your mail like "Get a free e-mail address from rah.com", not web based (definate bonus), not a clumsy UI (result of being web-based), no small inbox size limits, and no size limit on incoming/outgoing mail. BTW don't try and send a 4Mb file to someone with a Yahoo add, coz it just gets sent straight back (v. annoying).
Apr 9th, 2001, 01:18 PM
parksie
AFAIK MyRealBox has:
- IMAP
- POP3
- SMTP
- No appended items
- Web interface if you really want it
- And I don't think they snoop...
Apr 9th, 2001, 01:20 PM
chrisjk

But I bet you've got an unusuably small inbox size limit....:p
Apr 9th, 2001, 01:24 PM
parksie

It keeps up with my email load (50+ messages a day). Anyway, I download everything to Outlook so it's not a problem :)
Apr 9th, 2001, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by chrisjk
But I bet you've got an unusuably small inbox size limit....:p

That's a bit personnel isn't it.

Pix

Didn't know that!:eek: Damn, and l emailed my plans for a bloated OS which would need numerous downloads and would crash consistently forcing consumers to buy new versions from me........oh okay they already have a few of those.
Apr 10th, 2001, 01:00 AM
tumblingdown

Why are you downing web based mail?
It is the only way.

td.
Apr 10th, 2001, 01:23 AM

i hate web-based mail.. its bad and slow! :mad:
I've used many free POP3 accounts.. the best are HotPOP.com and Gmx.net . they have no ads!!
Apr 10th, 2001, 01:28 AM
tumblingdown

It is the only way.

td.