Re: Help please

From: Kath Adams (kathadams_at_(nospam)mvps.org)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:25:18 +0100

Starman wrote:
> It seems something is preventing me from accessing my hotmail
> account. I've tried turning off my anti-virus and firewall but it
> doesn't seem to make a difference. Does anybody know what could be
> causing this problem? it's only happening with hotmail...

>From PA Bear, (9-27):

<quote> As many as 18 million Hotmail subscribers will be weaned Monday
[27 Sept-04] from a free service that lets them export e-mail to another
mail client, under Microsoft MSN's new spam-fighting plan.

Hotmail, the Internet portal's Web-based e-mail service, has long
offered subscribers the ability to use a technology standard known as
Web DAV
(Web distributed authoring and versioning) to download e-mail from
Hotmail into Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express for free.

Starting Monday, MSN will grant use of Web DAV tools only to paid
subscribers of Hotmail, which starts at $19.95. However, Hotmail
subscribers who have previously used the technology, an estimated 5
percent to 10 percent of its total 187 million customers, will be able
to continue to use it for free through March or April of 2005. </quote>

http://news.com.com/Hotmail+to+wean+users+from+free+export+tool/2100-1038_3-5381740.html 

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
-- 
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)
Not many people are named after plane crashes

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