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

From: Vanguardx (see_signature)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:29:03 -0500

""old" devildog" <teymayATcableNOSPAMone.net>
wrote in news:uebmaZWpEHA.3716@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl:
> ... If you do not want to pay for what you
> received for free the go to someplace else like www.myway.com. ...

And how is MyWay a solution? You are still stuck using a web interface
to your e-mail. Hotmail isn't going away. They are just disabling the
WebDAV interface so *local* e-mail clients cannot connect to a Hotmail
account. The webmail interface to Hotmail will still exist. So your
proposal was to replace the Hotmail webmail interface with MyWay's
webmail interface. That is NOT what the OP wants. The OP (and me) want
a *local* e-mail client where we can manage our e-mails. Outlook
[Express] provided that. However, I had several Hotmail accounts and
always would run into problems when multiple HTTP accounts were defined
in Outlook [Express], so I dumped the WebDAV interface and started using
Hotmail Popper (until the author started charging for it). So you can
still use whatever local e-mail client you want by using Hotmail Popper
and don't have to bother with the webmail-for-dummies interface (except
to signup for a new account or to change options). 

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