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Anyone pay for hotmail?

hgc

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I was wondering if anyone around here is a paying customer for Hotmail. I use it for free (very limited capacity), and find that it is often unavailable. I wonder, do paying customers get on to the servers with net-age availability? Or do they get the privilege of paying for the crappiest web mail service imaginable. (Crappy not just for availability problems, but for limited features.)
 
Nowadays I find I can get in touch with most of my correspondents by using various forums . I never could get on with Hotmail .
 
Why anyone would use Hotmail is beyond me. It costs me the price of three beers a month to run my website and maintain as many email addresses as I want (I've set them up for all the members of my family plus a few friends who have found themselves short of mail accounts).
 
I've had my same hotmail account for about 6 years, I'd guess. I'm not very popular, so space isn't really an issue for me. Nice they have anti-virus to check your incoming mail. I use the free version.
 
Hurm

I use hotmail for my junk-public-address. To avoid getting spam in my real box, but I'd never get the pay version. Never had any problem connecting to the service though.

I host my own email server for my primary emial address. Very convienent, and I learned some Linux.

SSR
 
Tom Morris said:
Why anyone would use Hotmail is beyond me. It costs me the price of three beers a month to run my website and maintain as many email addresses as I want (I've set them up for all the members of my family plus a few friends who have found themselves short of mail accounts).
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I used hotmail to create a throw-away account to register with The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, etc.

Too much spam otherwise. OK technically it's not spam if you "agree" to it by registering.
 
I used the same free hotmail account for quite some years, mostly for where you have to put in a valid email in registrations. The spam was so bad however that it would fill my quota in a week or so. I had the feeling that they sent it completely random also and that I was found out since I have picked a 5 letter handle. Now I use a longer handle and get no spam. Never had connection problems. What features are there that I'm missing out? Send, receive and addressbook is what I need.
 
I still use a free HM account. (5 years plus).
The spam filters are pretty good now. Mine are set to exclusive. Spam goes to a junk folder and is auto cleared. Very rarely an email that should reach me is kicked into touch. I can't recall a spam mail reaching the inbox this year.

I have email via a broadband ISP at home, but it is inaccessible from behind the corporate firewall I'm skulking under just now.
 
I've actually got two hotmail addresses, both serve a purpose.

One is simply a dumping ground for spam and verification e-mails. This is the one that I give out publicly.

Then there is my private one that I'm only using because my ISP does not provide me with a valid e-mail address. I know you're thinking "what's up with that?" Well let me put it this way:

1) It's free
2) It's broadband.
3) I can get close to T1 speeds (fastest so far was 1.2Mb/sec).

So in this case, a free e-mail service is a necessary evil.
 
After looking at Yahoo-mail, I don't see any reason for using Hotmail. I'm going to switch when my current email becomes unavailable.
 
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