Why I hate Hotmail
- Hotmail accounts cannot be accessed via POP3 (it’s impossible to read Hotmail mail with any offline program except Outlook Express – you can’t even use Outlook)
- If you click on an external (non-MSN) link from an email message you get a new browser that has this evil frame that says that “You are visiting a site outside of Hotmail. To return to Hotmail, close this browser window.” Contrary to Microsoft’s beliefs, there is a world outside of MSN
- There is no way to get messages to be always saved in the “sent mail” folder. You must specify this manually for each message
- The junk/bulk mail filter is way too sensitive
- Messages in the “sent mail” folder are cleared every 30 days
- Many well publicized security breaches and a weak privacy policy
- Spam from Hotmail has a different icon than regular mail (again Microsoft utilizes a feature not available to the general public for it’s own benefit)
- Too much spam from Hotmail, when I get a letter from Yahoo, I always read it because it is invariably important. Letters from Hotmail are just more and more marketing propaganda and now go straight into the trash
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