Hotmail users: make your back up now!

**nucleuz** · 07-26-2002, 10:45 AM

Came across the following article : http://www.msnbc.com/news/785760.asp
Sounds like it's time to back up all those "sent messages" if you got somthing you want to keep !!!
Don't use it much except for my spam account, but hey: some people actually rely on it!

**Ian424** · 07-26-2002, 11:36 AM

bleh, people should seriously know better than to use hotmail for really important stuff, or to back up really important things.

**trionik** · 07-26-2002, 01:11 PM

I think Hotmail is good specially for important stuff ... How many time i had change my mail server ... as for hotmail it will always be there ...

**Ian424** · 07-26-2002, 01:56 PM

Originally posted by trionik
I think Hotmail is good specially for important stuff ... How many time i had change my mail server ... as for hotmail it will always be there ...

isnt the point of that article that it *wont* always be there?

**trionik** · 07-26-2002, 02:00 PM

Originally posted by Ian424

Originally posted by trionik
I think Hotmail is good specially for important stuff ... How many time i had change my mail server ... as for hotmail it will always be there ...

isnt the point of that article that it *wont* always be there?

they only delete the sent items... Wish is not very important .. And you can always make a copy of your sent items into the draft folder or any other folder that you have create...

**aabirnisar** · 07-26-2002, 02:19 PM

o God o God dont tell me i got some serious stuff in my sent messages folder . hey i havent recieve any mail from them with this note , anyway going to sav them locally . but do drop me a confirmation .

**slinky2000** · 07-26-2002, 06:14 PM

its quite ironic that this is posted today , cos

my girlfriend is quite a few miles away from me at the moment, so we send eachother emails, sometimes slightly dirty and meaningful ones! i went back to check up on some that i had sent b4 cos i wanted to keep them for memories etc,

when i looked 2 days ago, they were away! my God man!

they didnt tell me that!

**hurricaneone** · 07-26-2002, 10:03 PM

“I LITERALLY broke down in tears,” said Zajc, who now lives in Newfoundland, Canada, and for the past 24 hours has been furiously e-mailing recipients of the messages, hoping some of them saved her missives.

So, she moved to Newfoundland because she lost her emails, or did she just run out of money on the World Tour.

**gshock** · 07-26-2002, 10:56 PM

you cant and shouldnt EVER rely on hotmail. take that from my experience *i hate hotmail*

**aabirnisar** · 07-28-2002, 06:02 AM

now i hate hotmail , all my precious email and work deleted

, i hate u . first my contacts now my mails

i just want to go kill that .........
its not a reply to 'Where u want to go Today'

now i hav to go and buy a local account from my ISP

Hotmail sucks

**Ian424** · 07-28-2002, 09:47 AM

Originally posted by aabirnisar
now i hate hotmail , all my precious email and work deleted , i hate u . first my contacts now my mails i just want to go kill that .........
its not a reply to 'Where u want to go Today'
now i hav to go and buy a local account from my ISP
Hotmail sucks

getting an ISP account is probably better, because you can store everything on your computer, use any email program you want, and easily back things up. probably get more response for tech support or something since you are paying for it, also.

**phlegm_thrower** · 07-28-2002, 10:09 AM

don't u get an email account automatically when u sign up with your ISP?

**dJide** · 07-28-2002, 12:24 PM

It depends who you sign up with. I got one but I prefer hotmail. You can always store your letters as txt files on your computer so I don't know what some of you are crying about.

**Ed Mack** · 07-28-2002, 12:32 PM

When all the stored messages on hotmail get deleted without you even knowing they were going to?

**dJide** · 07-28-2002, 12:35 PM

But we know now.

**halfshark** · 07-28-2002, 12:37 PM

why dont you just hook up hotmail to your outlook and that way you store all your messages on hdd.

**slinky2000** · 07-28-2002, 12:41 PM

Originally posted by halfshark
why dont you just hook up hotmail to your outlook and that way you store all your messages on hdd.

thats what i do now, lol

but sometimes u cant when ur not at ur home comp

**Onionboy** · 07-28-2002, 01:14 PM

I used to use hotmail all the time but i only use it for crappy email junk now, such as jokes etc.

by the way caution to anyone using hotmail... and anyother email account. there is a new virus doing the rounds called the goldfish. somewhere in the email, the attachment, or the tittle it will have the word goldfish... do not accept it as there isnt a cure for the virus yet.

i have my own isp email account set up by the company im working for, but for personal stuff im using lycos, they are slo but im not having any other problems with them.

i dont like the fact that hotmail can be hacked so easily and that so many hackers try to hack it all the time.

good for first time emailers etc and people that dont rely on their email accounts... its free after all.

**g_evangelista** · 07-29-2002, 09:26 PM

I for one have to disagree that Microsoft's HOTmail is "useless anyway". Sure you're limited in the size of your attachments (unless you want to actually pay for more room. Pay, how absurd!).

But hotmail, for one, is FREE. And another reason, it's web based e-mail, so it's the same wherever you access it from. AOL users, have you ever gone to a friend's house that doesn't have AOL and you access your e-mail account from the world wide web on aol.com? Well, it's pathetic. They limit your writing to only plain text! You can't even choose the size of your font!

At least hotmail has a very acceptable panel of options when writing an e mail...all from the web! No software, no installations, and no extra space taken up on your computer.

All I'm saying is that hotmail is useful, especially for satirists like me.

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