Hotmail

[nickfrp]

Does any one else use it what do you think.

I found with hotmail:

every so often the server is full so i cant log in
its slow
THE SEARCH OPTION DOESNT ALLOW ME TO SPECIFY THE FOLDER TO SEARCH IN, IT SEARCH ACCROSS MY WHOLLE MAILBOX
get so much junk through hotmail
i can only attach one object at a time

Edited by on Wednesday 28th March 10:21

[tigger1]

Really like the new search option with Yahoo - and they're moving to unlimited storage soon (currently 1Gig I think?). The new mail beta is very "outlook-esque" in appearence, and is easy to use.

[beaker123]

I signed up for hotmail back when it was still any good - i.e. before Microsoft bought it out.
Since then, I've been using gMail, and love it. Much better than hotmail in every way.

[sadako]

I really like how Gmail arranges my messages into conversations so it puts all the conversations from one topic in my yahoo groups together like a forum thread

[Scraggles]

gmail convert here as well, got 3 accounts, one for me and 2 for online persona 2 GB storage and great anti spam, misses maybe 1 a week max

never had a downtime, unlike some friends who rely on hotmail or was it hotmale

[shocker-z]

GMAIL rocks but i do still use hotmail (8/9 year old account)

Then i have my own server at home also


I have gmail invites if you want an invite?


regards
Liam

[nickfrp]

Thanks very but but i too have a Gmail acount. But havent yet really used it. think its about time i did though

hotmail.. YOUR FIRED

[sheepy]

So is Gmail better than Yahoo? I'm currently "reviewing my options" after my wife's yahoo account was hacked last weekend. If someone wanted to send me an invite......

[sixpackpert]

Don't need invites anymore I believe, just search for googlemail and sign up.

[tigger1]

sheepy said:

So is Gmail better than Yahoo? I'm currently "reviewing my options" after my wife's yahoo account was hacked last weekend. If someone wanted to send me an invite......

Easiest way to "hack" any mail account is with social engineering - find out the mothers maiden name etc and then just do the "reset password" questions. Generally I think hotmail is the worst offender for this, as they don't require address / DOB when doing this (unliek yahoo, but I don't know what GMAIL requires).

So, moral of the story is, lie. When asked (on opening an email account) certain security questions, answer incorrectly (e.g. give your mother's mother's maiden name, say)...but then REMEMBER!!

[sheepy]

tigger1 said:

sheepy said:

So is Gmail better than Yahoo? I'm currently "reviewing my options" after my wife's yahoo account was hacked last weekend. If someone wanted to send me an invite......

Easiest way to "hack" any mail account is with social engineering - find out the mothers maiden name etc and then just do the "reset password" questions. Generally I think hotmail is the worst offender for this, as they don't require address / DOB when doing this (unliek yahoo, but I don't know what GMAIL requires).

So, moral of the story is, lie. When asked (on opening an email account) certain security questions, answer incorrectly (e.g. give your mother's mother's maiden name, say)...but then REMEMBER!!

No, they hacked into a defunct ebay account, and from there into my wife's email. My fault, I hadn't told/reminded her to change her password, and she's used the same password for both ebay and yahoo.

[Brink]

sixpackpert said:

Don't need invites anymore I believe, just search for googlemail and sign up.

When did that change?

[nickfrp]

sheepy said:

tigger1 said:

sheepy said:

So is Gmail better than Yahoo? I'm currently "reviewing my options" after my wife's yahoo account was hacked last weekend. If someone wanted to send me an invite......

Easiest way to "hack" any mail account is with social engineering - find out the mothers maiden name etc and then just do the "reset password" questions. Generally I think hotmail is the worst offender for this, as they don't require address / DOB when doing this (unliek yahoo, but I don't know what GMAIL requires).

So, moral of the story is, lie. When asked (on opening an email account) certain security questions, answer incorrectly (e.g. give your mother's mother's maiden name, say)...but then REMEMBER!!

No, they hacked into a defunct ebay account, and from there into my wife's email. My fault, I hadn't told/reminded her to change her password, and she's used the same password for both ebay and yahoo.

dicing with death. every thing i have has a differnet password. paypal having the hardest password of them all along with my online banking.

[sheepy]

nickfrp said:

sheepy said:

tigger1 said:

sheepy said:

So is Gmail better than Yahoo? I'm currently "reviewing my options" after my wife's yahoo account was hacked last weekend. If someone wanted to send me an invite......

Easiest way to "hack" any mail account is with social engineering - find out the mothers maiden name etc and then just do the "reset password" questions. Generally I think hotmail is the worst offender for this, as they don't require address / DOB when doing this (unliek yahoo, but I don't know what GMAIL requires).

So, moral of the story is, lie. When asked (on opening an email account) certain security questions, answer incorrectly (e.g. give your mother's mother's maiden name, say)...but then REMEMBER!!

No, they hacked into a defunct ebay account, and from there into my wife's email. My fault, I hadn't told/reminded her to change her password, and she's used the same password for both ebay and yahoo.

dicing with death. every thing i have has a differnet password. paypal having the hardest password of them all along with my online banking.

Yup, and in her defense, she never used the ebay account after setting it up, and it never dawned on either of us that she'd picked the same password. Anyway, no real harm done, and we've both learned something!

[teddy1600]

I recently converted to Gmail from my Hotmail account that I've been using for almost 10 years and I won't be going back. Far superior and much more flexible.