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

From: \ (teymayATcableNOSPAMone.net)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:20:49 -0500

Once again Billy Boy is not rich enough. I for one will not use my Hotmail accounts and will close them. I have had one since 1995. If that is the way M$$$$$$$$Soft wants to play, then they will find Hotmail an empty business. If you do not want to pay for what you received for free the go to someplace else like www.myway.com. I am sure they are not going to start charging and they don't have the pop-ups & ads running all over their pages. What next M$soft, charging for the use of your search engine .... lets see that will run you about $20 a year also or may be just a buck a search. The hackers are not going to close the internet .... the money hungry business's like M$soft will. Hotmail was not that great anyway. Hell Microsoft isn't any better. Next thing you know Billy Boy will be the King of the world because he bought it all. Wise up Microsoft, there are other companies out there and you can't continue to buy the world. Someday you will come crashing down hard, one to many legal battles, will suck the deep pockets dry. I for one am waiting for that day. 

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"keeps99" <keeps99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D1D72E13-0333-43ED-BF76-A47909F29DEF@microsoft.com...
| 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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