[SC-Help] Re: Giving them my email

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"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message 
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> Don Wannit wrote:
>> I signed up for a free Hotmail account, and it appears that Hotmail
>> does have several settings of interest to pledged spam fighters.
>
> I'm glad for this education, I'll probably have more questions.
>
>> Email goes either into your inbox or into your junk email folder,
>> depending on your settings.
>
> That's rather strange and it is similar to a statement Erin made about
> her mom looking in her Junkmail for her mail.  There's something strange
> about that.  The purpose of a filter is to eliminate [almost] all spam
> from your Inbox.  If there's a junkmail folder with your goodmail in
> there and a lot of spam, then that filter hasn't functioned properly.
>
> You haven't described yet the discriminatory features of the hotmail
> filter;  but that may be a bit much for posting and something that one
> would have to actually look at to fully appreciate.

===> As a longtime past but not as of the last year or so user of Hotmail 
accounts, their filters do a pretty respectable job of sorting the mail. 
The biggest problem I found was when someone used a dictionariable name: 
Those collected spam faster than you could delete it.  Your suggestion for a 
an alpha-dig-alpha username worked pretty well at Hotmail - as I recall it 
had to start with an alpha but after that could be any character you could 
type on a keyboard.
   I never personally experienced any leaks or give-aways of info by Hotmail 
as many like to allege.
   With a good username and what they call "safe hex", spam was actually 
kept at a reasonable minimum.  In fact, I had one account that never did get 
spammed over two years use.  Others that became compromised I just 
abandoned, which at the time was the recommencation; don't know if it still 
is.
   My biggest gripe with Hotmail was, one had to physically visit the wite 
within every 30 day period or they'd deactivate it.  Made using Popping it 
to my real address kind of a moot point because I'd forget to sign into the 
web site now and then.  I have heard, but I'm not positive, that you have to 
pay for Hotmail accounts now, and I don't know whether you can still read 
your Hotmails from within OE.

Isn't gmail a recommended client only system?

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