Notice to hotmail account holders
Hotmail has problems? Wednesday afternoon, before I took off for the office, I sent out the weekly horoscopes, all rolled up and ready to fly. Before I ever got out the door, every last hotmail address bounced.
Want to see what it looks like on this end?
\\Addressee unknown Giving up
I’m not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.\\
Imagine that message repeated hundreds of times. Over and over.
Must’ve hit a spam filter. While I deplore the amount of spam I’ve been getting, and while I’m all for combating the scourge of the net, \\i.e.\\, unsolicited commercial e-mail, I’m tired of hotmail’s periodic interruption of my services.
If you’re on a hotmail account, then you’ll have to sign up again. It’s real easy, fill out the form, and we’ll hook you up.
But be warned, for some reason, my 2699-word e-mail might bounce. Don’t complain to me. This time, it’s your mail service. Complain to your mail server that they bounced legitimate mail you requested.
Of course, hotmail is a free service, I don’t know how much complaining would be legitimate.
Too bad, too. That last e-mail from me? It was 100% advertising free. No profanity. No promises for a cheaper mortgage, or some seductive secret, or anything titillating. Just horoscopes from a different point of view.
Tech Thursday: Browsers.
Or just one? From c|net, Internet Explorer is #1. Then, closer to home [my home, anyway>, is this review from the UK’s Register that suggests Macintosh needs a good browser – it’s their conclusion.
Via MeFi, I found some interesting stats that dispute some of the other figures. Can’t read the German, but I can read the tables at the bottom.
When I am on the road, using a dialup connection, I tend to stick to Opera because it really is a lot faster on the slow phone lines, at least, it feels that way to me. So, in answer to the unasked question, Mac does have a good browser available.
