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FUT off-topic.debate
In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > OTOH, e-mail is a private industry, and has no guarantees. The cost of
> > legitimate e-mail is split nearly 50-50 between sender and recipient. Note
> > that I said legitimate. Most spammers use back doors and other illegitimate
> > methods to reduce their costs to nearly zero; that cost is shifted to the
> > recipient. (And some of us pay per byte for our e-mail. What, you want free
> > e-mail? Ain't gonna happen.)
>
> Already has. Get a free ISP and a hotmail account and you're all set. Of
> course then there's all the ADs.
To paraphrase a famous line from Rainman... "Hotmail Sucks"
I briefly had a hotmail account (actually I still do I don't think they ever go
away) until I got the NELUG address. SPAM was so bad on Hotmail I almost
couldn't figure out the good from the bad. Actually I have the hotmail account
set up for some testing occasionally and I check it occasionally for laughs.
Earlier this week I have about 95 new SPAM messages come in 1 day.
Now they do have a new "Bulk E-mail" option which in theory sifts out most of
the SPAM, which it does, but it still misses about 10% of the messages and some
real E-mail actually ends up getting caught as SPAM. For instance the NELUG
mailing list messages are classified as SPAM because it blocks the To:
addresses from view. And this Bulk E-mail option is not highly configurable,
its basically off or on.
So while that account lives for purposes other than to receive E-mail I would
never suggest anyone get a Hotmail account.
I also have a Yahoo account which while it still gets quite a bit of SPAM its
filters are much better then Hotmails.
Just my $.02
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
View My Creations at:
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/
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| (...) Not really. The Bulk Mail feature allows you to specify certain addresses that are not classified as Spam no matter what. When the feature first started I was cautious, so I checked my "Bulk Mail" folder every day to see if it didn't take any (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) throw (...) Don't forget disposal cost. Unless your garbage is set up in order to INCENT waste, you should be paying for your disposal based on your volume. And that's one more piece that you have to take care of. (...) Already has. Get a free (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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