Hotmail Users

[summerlinda]

Yeah, those penis enlargement mails, i get tons of them.
As if I need it....... D'oh

But they dont bother me that much, they go straight to the junkmail folder.

[crazy_billy_bats]

Originally posted by summerlinda@17 June 2003 - 21:41
they go straight to the junkmail folder.

yeah but im always afraid someone i know's email will go in the junk folder.......
so i feel obliged to check it and then am shown the several viagra ad's !!

[TheDave]

Originally posted by RGX@17 June 2003 - 21:30
lol, the penis enlargment emails really do make me laugh, what are they trying to say?

well, any other hotmailers out there wanna add me, your welcome, you just gotta say who you are (on the board), its annoying when people add you then wont say lol

but what do you do when your 12 year old sister gets bombarded with hardons. i mean she shouldnt be seeing that

[merlin-1]

Hotmail is nothing but I dont need all that crap that i used to get with hotmail.I dumped them a long time ago and went to Yahoo much better.

[ugluk]

i use hotmail because it's crap! whenever i have to sign up somewhere with an valid email adress (like a discussion board! ) i use my hotmail adress. doesnt matter if it gets spammed you see.
i also have an yahoo adress. and one at my university. and some others i never use.

hotmail is good! it is crap. just what i need sometimes.

[evilbagpuss]

Yahoo is far more insecure than Hotmail. When you enter your password with yahoo it is sent in plain text via HTTP. When you enter your password with hotmail it is automatically encrypted via HTTPS. This means that anyone on your LAN, or at your ISP can 'sniff' your yahoo password. You can enter the password via HTTPS in Yahoo but you have to select the option each time you login which I find rather tedious.

It's also a matter of principle. Every year or so a huge child porn ring is exposed usually with a yahoo group being the 'front door' to it.

When was the last time you heard of a hotmail club being used in that manner?

[Illuminati]

I can explain why a good chunk of Hotmail users use it in one post.

Plain and simple - MSN Messenger. AFAIK, MSN Messenger requires a Microsoft .NET passport. And what do you need for a .NET passport? A hotmail address. In other words, to use MSN Messenger you need a Hotmail account.

But that in itself begs another question - Why use MSN Messenger if Hotmail is crap? Put simply - Because out of the four major alternatives to MSN, 2 are the software version of scumbags and the third isn't the most user-friendly. Here's what I mean

• ICQ - USED to be a good alternative to MSN...until AOL Time Warner bought it and uploaded god knows how much crap onto it. ICQ's now known as a scum-ridden program of spyware & adware, which is a shame considering that it used to be a great IM
• AIM - AOL Instant Messenger. Enough said. You want more? Check out the problems with ICQ above - Different mechanics to them, but their owners have the same principles for both (mainly because they have the same owner). Oh wait, there is one major difference - ICQ used to be good then went crap, AIM always was crap

Which leaves MSN, Yahoo! and IRC. IRC is not the most user-friendly - I have trouble myself learning all the workings of it. Yes, it's more powerful than MSN or Yahoo!, but I hardly see that many using all the features of MSN anyway, so what'd be the point?

This leaves MSN and Yahoo! - "The cosmetic IM kings". This boils down to a turf war in the end - Some like MSN, others like Yahoo! I think that because MSN sticks to only certain things "which it's good at" instead of going all around the block like Yahoo!, most people prefer MSN. But seeing as I haven't tried Yahoo! (or AIM for that matter), I can't be sure.

But what the hell do I care - I personally use Trillian!

I hope that kinda explains why a lot choose MSN.

[crazy_billy_bats]

Originally posted by Illuminati@17 June 2003 - 22:29
I can explain why a good chunk of Hotmail users use it in one post.

Plain and simple - MSN Messenger. AFAIK, MSN Messenger requires a Microsoft .NET passport. And what do you need for a .NET passport? A hotmail address. In other words, to use MSN Messenger you need a Hotmail account.

But that in itself begs another question - Why use MSN Messenger if Hotmail is crap? Put simply - Because out of the four major alternatives to MSN, 2 are the software version of scumbags and the third isn't the most user-friendly. Here's what I mean

• ICQ - USED to be a good alternative to MSN...until AOL Time Warner bought it and uploaded god knows how much crap onto it. ICQ's now known as a scum-ridden program of spyware & adware, which is a shame considering that it used to be a great IM
• AIM - AOL Instant Messenger. Enough said. You want more? Check out the problems with ICQ above - Different mechanics to them, but their owners have the same principles for both (mainly because they have the same owner). Oh wait, there is one major difference - ICQ used to be good then went crap, AIM always was crap

Which leaves MSN, Yahoo! and IRC. IRC is not the most user-friendly - I have trouble myself learning all the workings of it. Yes, it's more powerful than MSN or Yahoo!, but I hardly see that many using all the features of MSN anyway, so what'd be the point?

This leaves MSN and Yahoo! - "The cosmetic IM kings". This boils down to a turf war in the end - Some like MSN, others like Yahoo! I think that because MSN sticks to only certain things "which it's good at" instead of going all around the block like Yahoo!, most people prefer MSN. But seeing as I haven't tried Yahoo! (or AIM for that matter), I can't be sure.

But what the hell do I care - I personally use Trillian!

I hope that kinda explains why a lot choose MSN.

isnt it just because its easy?

[MUSLEMAN]

that is a great explanation, but for me as i said before msn has pop3 account and yahoo no longer has it and i don't use msn messenger, but thats just me

[Illuminati]

isnt it just because its easy?

<bangs head on wall> Sometimes I just wonder if there&#39;s ever an explanation which BOTH explains it in full for the interlects and simple for the rest.

Okay, I&#39;ll cut it down - There&#39;s five major IMs. Here&#39;s what&#39;s wrong with the current selection

• ICQ - AOL bought it, full of spyware
• AIM - AOL&#39;s own-brand IM. Enough said
• IRC - Too complex for those who just want to use the basic functions of IMs

That leaves two left - MSN & Yahoo&#33; That leaves a turf war - MSN vs Yahoo&#33; These are which most IM users (most of which do not have enough computer knowledge to know about IRC) use these two. Which require their own-brand email services to use them; figures MSN is considered an IM with more features than Yahoo&#33;, hence is more popular - Fact. That&#39;s why a huge chunk go for Hotmail accounts over Yahoo&#33; mail accounts.

Does that explain it for everyone? I&#39;ll start building sock puppets if there are still a few confused