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What is up with the new hotmail? No spam!!

When i first "obtained" my email address I used to get over 100 spam messages a day. My inbox would fill up twice a week.

Now I can actually use it as an email address instead of just for messenger which I gave up the idea of long long ago.

Same for others? SpiderMonkey?

Yes, I can now go more than 2 days withou checking my hotmail and not reach my account limit from 500 spam messages. Amazing! The new interface is kinda stupid though.

... hate the new interface. There's an extra click involved, and it's in the middle of the page, so I can't just mouse left and home in on the inbox link. Bleh. Minor complaint though. I'm probably the only person on the planet that didn't get spammed to death with hotmail before. I'd get 1 or 2 penis enlargement ads a day, and a prescription drug ad every other day or so, but that was it. I never blocked anyone because I didn't think it worked, so I don't know how my spam intake was that low. Now I don't get the couple of ads I did get before. It's quite nice.

I don’t know what the new web interface looks like because I haven’t used it.

I recently added hotmail integration into my outlook, which works pretty well for me.

I have noticed that my spam count has gone down, but I still receive a decent amount of spam.

The only thing that I do not like about the whole thing is the fact that it has slowed my sending and receiving of pop mail, because outlook synchronizes the hotmail inbox every time you hit send and receive. I could hit send and receive ender mail only, but that is a hassle. I think that there is some sync setting I can monkey with, but I haven't dug that deep yet.


So that’s my 2 cents worth... oh and office 2003 rocks.

I'm gonna have to go ahead and agree with you on Outlook2k3 rocking!

How cool is this interface?



Priority flagging has totally changed the way I handle email. I love the "Unread Mail" folder! Mail comes in and I can look at just what is new. Then I flag what I want to reply to later with its level of priority, delete what I don't need to save, and then sort what I want to keep. No more huge unsorted inbox. I can quickly look at what is what on the "For Follow Up" screen. On top of the cool new features they fixed the one thing that bugged me about Outlook XP - you can finally disable all the stupid Journal/My Outlook crap. And the contacts are better as well.

All in all I am very, very pleased!

Hotmail has been pretty good with their spam filter for a while now. even in the old web interface, only very rarely would spam slip through their filter.

... my hotmail through OE at home, but I use the web interface at work. All of my accounts go to OE.

I like spam, makes me feel popular.

J3RK: I once made fun of the ender for the outlook use, and I was a heavy supporter of the Outlook Express.


I have seen the light, Outlook 2003 is the bomb! You should at least give it a try.

have to hotmail accounts... give one out to anybody and the rest only to friends. no spam.

can use outlook instead of new hotmail interface. also you can get to your new mail from the today tab if you just click on it so there really isn't an extra one if you do that.

I'll look into that,


Thanks

lovin the hotmail as of late. It's the only address that I have that I can send and receive Japanese mail in, it's fast on the send, and spam is at an all-time low.

It would seem that spam has caught up with new hotmail.
I'm back to about 40 messages per day.