Re: Very odd hotmail problem

From: Dan (_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:45:56 -0500

I know. I does continue to work for me on the 6 accounts I have had set
up for some time. Will this go on indefinitely? Time will tell. A new
account my wife set up however will not access via hotmail popper OR OE.
  Maybe it's a "grandfathering" thing; more likely the axe will fall
later. Frankly, I think a lot of users have multiple HM accounts, and
very few are going to be willing to pony up a separate fee for each one,
nor will they want to go to the trouble of logging into each one
separately on the server, several times a day. I'm guessing M$ will
either have to reconsider or lose a hell of a lot of its accounts. Do
they care? probably not, clearly they figure they can only pay for the
accounts by fees or the ads they hope to shove in front of free users
faces. Another possibilty is some bright programmer will find a
work-around, as Hotmail Popper did for the OE only limitation.

Dan

PA Bear wrote:
> <eg> From that page:
>
> <quote>
> Please Note: Microsoft has recently decided that only paying members
> will be able access Hotmail using outside services such as Hotmail
> Popper. Hotmail Popper will continue working [only] with a "Hotmail
> Plus" (or equivalent MSN) account [in the very near future].
> </quote>

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