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I don't get it - why is everybody using accounts like hotmail, yahoo! and other free providers in the first place? Everyone connects to the internet, right? So everybody has some sort of ISP, right? The mayority of ISP's provide email-support, right? I had myself a little counting:
Currently, I have at least 4 mailboxes (not counting hotmail-like free services):
2 from ISP-subscribtions (both 15mb max), 1 at college (32.5mb), 1 at debian-box that one of my friend keeps running (no quota, fair use policy). Furthermore, I have 2 boxes at work. That makes a total of six. Granted, I don't use those at work for private usage.
Accessebility, you say? Both ISP-boxes have both POP3 and Webbased access, the one at college can be popped and can be reached trough ordinary telnet (pine, baby!) - The one at my friends place can be popped too, but is reachable 'only' trough ssl otherwise (so, i'm behind a win32 computer which is my own, aka not set up to read the account using pop3, I can't have direct access to it.
I'm not even counting the (filterable) aliases here! With that, the number of addresses would be 18 (including the boxes themselves, but excluding work-related addresses). Out of that 18, fourteen are accessable trough webmail, 17 through pop, 4 trought SSL and three trough telnet alone.
And the sad part is: I've rerouted and/or forwarded most of them to 3 different aliasses...
I'm not trying to show of my incredible number of boxes here - as a matter of fact, I'm sure that there are hopes of people that actually have more boxes than I do - but my point is: why wine over the loss of service from Yahoo, Hotmail or any other 'free' service? I didn't do anything to aquire these addresses specificly, they were all given to me as a service, while I actually signed up for another service. I can't imagine that there would be many people today with access to the internet that haven't got some form of mailbox at their disposal...
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I've used my Hotmail account for everything, particularly e-mails from sites like AntiOnline, since Freeserve disabled my account once for port scanning my own computer (!!).
This way, the clueless people at Freeserve can't open my inbox and read the lot (I guess they could catch it as it goes through their routers, but they're not intelligent enough to do that!).
Basically, Until I can get an account at a college or something, where there is a suitably open AUP, I'm stuck with Hotmail (until I get a broadband net connection, then I'll just run my own server).
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I've had some accounts deleted before too... Luckly they weren't my 'important' ones... A lot of the people I talk with use hotmail and messenger, so I'd have a harder time talking to all of them if it went down or something... I'm kinda unhappy about the yahoo one too... I've noticed that recently I can't send out messages with my email client... Soon, I'll have to go through the site... It does increase how much people view their ads though, that's for sure... Being forced to go to the site brings you in contact with stuff they want you to see... Well, at least my accounts aren't being flooded, so I think I'm getting my messages... Either that or my friends are e-mailing me stuff they won't talk about.... Too bad, I was getting used to just kicking back and stuff..., now I have to go through a lot more stuff to do the same thing...
-Tim_axe
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My wife uses a hotmail account for school email. I checked it and received the following:
"Help
Reactivate your Hotmail Account
While you were gone we temporarily deactivated your account. All
account content such as messages, folders and addresses have been
cleared. An account is temporarily deactivated when either:
(1) you have not signed in for at least 30 days
(2) you did not sign-in within 10 days of registration or activation
(3) you chose to close your account in the last 30 days
To reactivate (elided)@hotmail.com please click reactivate account."
I reactived her account, but any important interdepartmental messages are gone.
She will be PO'd when she gets out of the hospital.
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The SubDimension e-mail is great. I've got [email protected] and I now access it through MS Outlook (If anyone can recommend a better e-mail client for Windows I'd be more than happy to change to it, Outlook is really annoying me!)
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Originally posted here by Guus
I don't get it - why is everybody using accounts like hotmail, yahoo! and other free providers in the first place? Everyone connects to the internet, right? So everybody has some sort of ISP, right? The mayority of ISP's provide email-support, right? I had myself a little counting:
It's not very complicated........When you change ISP's you loose that email account. Simple. Web based accounts are permanent.
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Indeed!
And a permanent address means that you don't have to tell 5 million people that you've changed your e-mail address... It saves time, money, stress...
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