Re: Microsoft to charge for Hotmail w/ OE - Please DON'T!!
From: Pop (nobody_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 09/27/04
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:52:10 -0400
Let 'em charge: They need to lose subscribers at AOL anyway.
These days, $19.95 is a greedy price for an account. Especially
when you consider what they get for their money. You can get
better accounts at almost any decent ISP nowadays for <
$10/month; unlimited, multiple accounts, etc etc.
"PA Bear" <PABear@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:eDcMIHOpEHA.1960@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
| Yahoo did the same thing a few years ago (for US- and CA-based
accounts).
| If you want to retain access to your free Hotmail account in OE
and OL, pony
| up the US$19.95/year (which BTW is the same price Yahoo charges
you).
| --
| ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
| MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
|
| keeps99 wrote:
| > Microsoft has announced they will start charging extra to
allow users to
| > use
| > Outlook and Outlook Express with Hotmail Accounts. Please,
Don't Do it!
| > I
| > like saving my messages off and keeping them offline.
Offline, I have
| > every
| > email I have sent or received in the last 4 years... This
is wrong -
| > there
| > must be some way to get around it - there must be another
solution!!
| > PLEASE! Please listen to your user community. User's Unite.
Voice your
| > opinion!!
| >
| >
| > News Item Follows:
| >
| > Microsoft Adds New Hotmail Fee
| >
| > To curb spam, users will be charged for accessing their
e-mail via
| > Outlook.
| >
| > Joris Evers, IDG News Service
| > Monday, September 27, 2004
| > Microsoft will start charging for a Hotmail feature that
allows users of
| > the
| > Web-based e-mail service to access their e-mail using the
Outlook e-mail
| > client.
| >
| >
| > Microsoft is making the move not to increase the number of
paying Hotmail
| > users but because the feature is being abused by senders of
spam, says
| > Brooke Richardson, lead product manager for MSN at Microsoft.
| >
| > "Essentially what spammers do is create scripts so they can
rapid-fire
| > e-mail from Outlook or Outlook Express and pop off a hundred
e-mails from
| > each of those Hotmail accounts in rapid succession,"
Richardson says. "On
| > certain days we have seen tens of thousands of Hotmail
accounts set up and
| > spamming in this matter."
| >
| > To prevent abuse of the feature, Microsoft will stop making
it available
| > to
| > new users of free Hotmail and MSN mail accounts starting this
week.
| > Current
| > users can continue to use the feature but will be asked to
become Hotmail
| > subscribers over the coming months. By April next year, the
feature will
| > no
| > longer be available for free, Richardson says.
| >
| > The Hotmail and MSN mail feature is known as WebDAV, after
the Web-based
| > Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol that
enables it. It
| > is enabled on about 5 percent, or 9.4 million, of the 187
million active
| > Hotmail accounts, according to Richardson.
| >
| >
| > For the Greater Good?
| > While the decision to make the link with Outlook or Outlook
Express a paid
| > service won't be welcome news to some users, Microsoft had to
take the
| > step
| > "for greater good" of the Hotmail and e-mail community,
Richardson says.
| >
| > Furthermore, rival Web-based e-mail providers such as Yahoo
already charge
| > for similar functionality, she says.
| >
| > Other actions that Microsoft has taken to prevent abuse of
Hotmail by
| > senders of spam include a limit on outgoing messages of 100
per day on
| > free
| > accounts and an extra validation requirement when signing up
for an
| > account,
| > Richardson says. "We do a lot of stuff in terms of
understanding the
| > characteristics of spammers so we can watch for them and shut
them down
| > when
| > we see them," she says.
| >
| > Users who want to use WebDAV to link their Hotmail or MSN
mail to an
| > Outlook
| > can subscribe to Hotmail Plus, which also offers 2GB of
e-mail space and
| > an
| > account that doesn't expire, for $19.95 per year, or to MSN
Premium for
| > $99.95 a year.
|
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