FthrJACK Posted May 26, 2002 Posted May 26, 2002 Hotmail has changed its policy on spam without warning its millions of users. Microsoft secretly added 3 new tick boxes to every users profile without notice. 2 of these boxes are ticked by default "share my email address" and "share my other registration information"i wondered why i was getting a huge increase in spam!!the other box is called "share my first and last names" isnt ticked.this means hotmails 118 million users will be getting even more spam in thier inboxes,... maybe im cynical but it looks like a way to make sure as many people as possible have full inboxes, so that they can be encouraged to pay for larger inboxes!id suggest people do one of the following, close your account out of protest, or go to your 'options' > 'personal profile' and change settings in your hotmail account before too many spam companies get hold of your details.
Aaron Posted May 26, 2002 Posted May 26, 2002 erk, looks like I will have to close this account anyway, its getting too much spam already.Next time I will register a very long email address at hotmail, with a long combination of letters and numbers. This lessens the spam and spammers can't guess the email address.e.g. Aaron_2343_XP_9376_l33t@hotmail.com - something like that lolEveryone else should do the same
FthrJACK Posted May 26, 2002 Author Posted May 26, 2002 getting an account on a private mail server (such as mine hehe) with a .org or .net suffix will result in much less spam, as spammers actually filter these out, .org and .net places tend to not have any money, students etc. so they wont waste time on these, also governements etc use them and its a fellony to mail some of them, the best spam deterent is a .mil address, as its a felony to mail the military.
babis Posted May 26, 2002 Posted May 26, 2002 ha.. .milspeaking of hotmail i don't get how people can only handle a 2mb account.. that's just too small...doesn't yahoo offer like a 6mb account? or something...
Blackwar Posted May 26, 2002 Posted May 26, 2002 ha.. .milspeaking of hotmail i don't get how people can only handle a 2mb account.. that's just too small...doesn't yahoo offer like a 6mb account? or something...Yeah, yahoo has 6megs, but i say the king here is Myrealbox They offer 10mb online storage and also have pop3 support..I use them, thumbs up
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