Re: Microsoft to charge for Hotmail w/ OE - Please DON'T!!

From: Tom Pepper Willett (tompepper_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:01:29 -0500

$19.95 a year is greedy compared to $10 per month?

"Pop" <nobody@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:%23JCFWSOpEHA.1308@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
| 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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