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Restricted access to Hotmail

Today when I attempted to connect to my Hotmail account through Outlook and Outlook Express I received the following exception message:

    Task 'Hotmail: Folder:Inbox Synchronizing headers.' reported error (0x800CCCF6) :
    'The server responded 'Payment Required'. '

A wee bit of Googl'ing led me to this post: http://weblogs.asp.net/danhub/archive/2004/11/19/267035.aspx

Interesting to see it determined that WebDav poses a security risk unless you pay the $19 annually! 

Posted: Nov 22 2004, 04:58 AM by digory | with 4 comment(s)
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Thomas Tomiczek said:

::Interesting to see it determined that WebDav poses a security risk unless you pay
::the $19 annually

Your argumentation is bullshit.

First, naturally, you they want to earn money.

But then, second, this never was about security. THis was about spam. People getting anonymous hotmail accounts, then using WebDav to send out spam.

US$ 19 handles this nicely.

First, this is not free anymore.
Second, you know WHO the dude is - OR you have someone commiting a Federal Crime by using not his credit card. Whatever, you have a some nice pressure you can now apply to his balls.

Makes sense, logically.
# November 21, 2004 2:22 PM

William Luu said:

The interesting thing though, is GMail is now offering POP3 access to their email service.

Which does beg the question whether or not the other big 2 free email providers (Hotmail and Yahoo) will follow suit.

I doubt hotmail will, however, I think there is a chance Yahoo might. They did offer pop3 access a few years ago, from memory.
# November 21, 2004 4:23 PM

Darren Neimke said:

Hi William... yeh, the fact that GMail have allowed it makes Hotmail's timing seem interesting.
# November 21, 2004 5:18 PM

peytons022 said:

Yes Hotmail access is very slow go for this also

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