I only use hotmail addy for registering at sites, and for downloading porn. But even without using the email addy at all, spam floods in . I think Microsoft really likes spam or something.
I had a similar problem with sent messages being deleted. I had some code I had written a while ago saved there and just yesterday I wanted to use some of it and it wasn't there. Luckily I found it backed up on my Mom's TiBook, so it wasn't terrible, just slightly inconvenient.
And unlike most accounts, I do have one Hotmail account that gets no spam at all, aside from the messages from Hotmail Member Services (which I ignore).
Hey there are a lot of better and less known free email services... if you are looking for something to try, i'll give some ideas. I have tried maybe 200 different ones, searching for the perfect one - they don't exist - so i left 3 accounts in altern, one in yahoo, 2 in my service (no spam) and 3 in libero / iol.
altern is a (french) service: check online or pop. 10 mb if i remember right. no advertising, very fast, very very minimal graphics. haven't found any negativities - except it's in french. if u know whate are 'write', 'send' and ome more basical terms it's ok. also, registering they don't ask even your name. like it cos fast.
should be very fast. it takes some time to find the english version ... i used it for a year, just got bored and changed to altern...
libero and iol.. are only in italian and now are full of provider sent spam. so i don't really suggest them.
<a href="http://mulattabianca.zzn.com"; target="_blank">http://mulattabianca.zzn.com</a>; .. thehe! ok i promise, no spam. choose interface in 14 languages .. and get notice in other mail or icq of your mails if u prefer .. zzn accounts now are far from what they were years ago. when i have to use public comps, i use this and yahoo.
in the end.. yahoo has remained for years, it works about everywhere.. and hotmail i use exclusively to the registrations that will anyway send me the spam.
i wish there was in every service a button in the inbox "kill this sender" or "block"...
i would NOT recommend any of these to use: uol.com.ar (worst of all uol's .. i never give the address to anyone and i get only spam) - francimel.com - they killed all my mails in inbox with no notice so i quitted using it after that - zwallet -yep .. get paid 0,000 $ for rading your spams .. - anything adding stupid spams in the end of your mails or that cancel your inboxes with no notice.. - even hushmail .. i had an account and now they want it to be paid!! i'll simply use pgp when i need and that's it..
.. ok, only some suggestions if anyone's looking for something else as an email account..
I've never understood the obsession with "free" stuff.
Nothing from a commercial vendor is truly free.
If you use a "free" email service, or a free browser, the company offering it doesn't answer to you, so they can change things to suit those people they do answer to - usually advertisers and their own accounting and marketing departments - at a whim. Address and demographics information is valuable, and sale of such is lucrative, so if they're not making money off a service that you sign up for, odds are they're making it by selling your information to whoever the highest bidder happens to be. They have no interest in maintaining user reliability or security or confidentiality over the wishes of the people who actually are paying them.
The exception is public domain code (NewsWatcher) and open source code, where there is generally some sort of altruism involved, because nobody is paying the "vendor," and there often is no vendor to begin with.
If you buy a service, on the other hand, the vendor is beholden to you, and they have a direct interest in tailoring their service to suit you. The more elaborate things like email clients and web browsers get, and the more commercial the media they access become, the more important this distinction is.
That's why I'm happy to pay for something like OmniWeb. I'd rather have a browser designed for my purposes than one designed for Microsoft's, or AOL's.
i signed up for a hotmail account winter quarter while studying abroad. (it was the only free one i knew of) i don't really save sent messages and i've never gotten any spam and trust me i know spam (i have an aol account at my parents house!). i knew this was just going to be a temporary account so only a handfull of people know the address. the hotmail service was perfect for what i wanted.
but now i'm back and i think i might buy a .mac account once i get my mac.
just wanted to say that i have had a nice experience with my account and that it is nice for some things.
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And unlike most accounts, I do have one Hotmail account that gets no spam at all, aside from the messages from Hotmail Member Services (which I ignore).
Just don't expect it to stay that way forever.
Steve jobs' eats granola and soy
there was an episode of babylon 5 where garibaldi was with someone and they ate nutra-grain bars
(only the label was taken off)
<a href="http://altern.org/mail"; target="_blank">http://altern.org/mail</a>;
altern is a (french) service: check online or pop. 10 mb if i remember right. no advertising, very fast, very very minimal graphics. haven't found any negativities - except it's in french. if u know whate are 'write', 'send' and ome more basical terms it's ok. also, registering they don't ask even your name. like it cos fast.
(and i don't know any french btw)
<a href="http://mail.ru"; target="_blank">http://mail.ru</a>; (if i remember right without www)
should be very fast. it takes some time to find the english version ... i used it for a year, just got bored and changed to altern...
libero and iol.. are only in italian and now are full of provider sent spam. so i don't really suggest them.
<a href="http://mulattabianca.zzn.com"; target="_blank">http://mulattabianca.zzn.com</a>; .. thehe! ok i promise, no spam. choose interface in 14 languages .. and get notice in other mail or icq of your mails if u prefer .. zzn accounts now are far from what they were years ago. when i have to use public comps, i use this and yahoo.
also <a href="http://terra.com"; target="_blank">http://terra.com</a>; (.uy, .ar etc) seems ok.. i dont really get spam there.
in the end.. yahoo has remained for years, it works about everywhere.. and hotmail i use exclusively to the registrations that will anyway send me the spam.
i wish there was in every service a button in the inbox "kill this sender" or "block"...
i would NOT recommend any of these to use: uol.com.ar (worst of all uol's .. i never give the address to anyone and i get only spam) - francimel.com - they killed all my mails in inbox with no notice so i quitted using it after that - zwallet -yep .. get paid 0,000 $ for rading your spams .. - anything adding stupid spams in the end of your mails or that cancel your inboxes with no notice.. - even hushmail .. i had an account and now they want it to be paid!! i'll simply use pgp when i need and that's it..
.. ok, only some suggestions if anyone's looking for something else as an email account..
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Nothing from a commercial vendor is truly free.
If you use a "free" email service, or a free browser, the company offering it doesn't answer to you, so they can change things to suit those people they do answer to - usually advertisers and their own accounting and marketing departments - at a whim. Address and demographics information is valuable, and sale of such is lucrative, so if they're not making money off a service that you sign up for, odds are they're making it by selling your information to whoever the highest bidder happens to be. They have no interest in maintaining user reliability or security or confidentiality over the wishes of the people who actually are paying them.
The exception is public domain code (NewsWatcher) and open source code, where there is generally some sort of altruism involved, because nobody is paying the "vendor," and there often is no vendor to begin with.
If you buy a service, on the other hand, the vendor is beholden to you, and they have a direct interest in tailoring their service to suit you. The more elaborate things like email clients and web browsers get, and the more commercial the media they access become, the more important this distinction is.
That's why I'm happy to pay for something like OmniWeb. I'd rather have a browser designed for my purposes than one designed for Microsoft's, or AOL's.
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but now i'm back and i think i might buy a .mac account once i get my mac.
just wanted to say that i have had a nice experience with my account and that it is nice for some things.