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An Interesting Move By MSN

I keep a Hotmail account for Passport and for whenever I have to sign up for something that might produce volumes of spam. However, since the Web interface...leaves something to be desired, I use Outlook. Now--and I guess there's some comlex "win the battle by losing customers" bid that I don't understand--MSN has decided to charge people if they want to access their accounts outside of the browser interface. I guess it's time to dust off the ol' gmail account.

Oh well, at least their music is still free.

Posted: Nov 17 2004, 08:39 PM by EdKaim | with 7 comment(s)
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William Luu said:

I just don't understand that.

Ah well, GMail now offers users to access their email via their favourite mail client.

Given that has happened, it's probably only in time that Hotmail/MSN may well reverse their decision (at least I hope they do anyway).

# November 17, 2004 11:52 PM

Claude said:

Is there any reason not to use GMail? Except for being a Microsoft employee? No. GMail's got a far superior interface, plus you get 1GB... plus you can POP.
# November 18, 2004 4:51 AM

Diego said:

gmail even uses encryption for pop/smtp...

plus, it has a great spam filter (i post in lots of open sources lists replied by docens of mirrors with web interfaces, you get a lot of spam in those and gmail filters everything).


I can't say I'm unhappy. Right now, gmail beats the rest of free email services. The real power of hotmail must be in its integration with messenger, etc.
# November 18, 2004 7:30 AM

Harry said:

Works for me from both Outlook and Outlook Express.
# November 18, 2004 7:37 AM

Deepak said:

No feature......thinking....let them have the feature.....they like the feature....take away the feature....wait wait.....maybe give the feature back....can't decide what to do.....

# November 18, 2004 8:03 AM

Luciano Evaristo Guerche said:

Before GMail announced POP3 access, I used FreePOPS (http://www.freepops.org/en/) to have my Yahoo! and GMail inboxes delivered to Outlook and Outlook Express.
# November 18, 2004 8:52 AM

Bill Gates said:

You're fired!
# November 18, 2004 10:30 AM
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