From: Gary Britt 

Hotmail is Microsoft and Gmail is Google and I don't trust either one of
them not to screw me, my email, and my inbox.  I don't trust google not to
have computers screening my email content (which if I suspected they might
do and I do, it would violate rules of ethics for client communications)
selling the info, sending me ads, or selling my email address to the
spammer sides of their organizations.  Maybe rightly or wrongly but hotmail
accounts, in my mind, have always been associated with dipshit, punk kids,
and scammers (I'm not calling you or anyone here that of course), but
that's how I've always viewed hotmail accounts.  Maybe I'm just still too
old school from compuserve, moderated forums, and real names.

Even allowing for my old school prejudices however, if somebody wanted to
do business with me and they didn't have their own email domain or their
own ISP email account and instead used a hotmail account, it wouldn't give
me much of an impression about their credibility.  I don't think AOL mail
and Yahoo mail have the same bad connotations in my mind as Hotmail, but
AOL's email accounts eat file attachments and render them unopenable more
often than not from my experience.  Yahoo doesn't seem to do this.  I don't
know if its AOL attempting to zip compress the attachments or what, but
they render them unusuable quite often.  I remember back in 1997 you
couldn't send an AOL user an attachment unless you zipped it first on the
sender's end.  Now they don't seem to require that.  Instead, they just
render the attachments unusable so you will stop trying to send any to AOL
email accounts.

Gary

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> FWIW I get less spam on my hotmail account than on my other accounts.
>
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:455cd3de{at}w3.nls.net...
>> If you setup any domain name and then buy the $4 per month web hosting,
>> you don't have to have a web page if you don't want.  You can still use
>> the email and email relaying that is provided free as part of the web
>> hosting deal.  Then you can use your regular pop3 app for mail whether you
>> are on the road or not.  This is what I do.  Your Web host's email servers
>> are reached for email relays through one of several possible alternative
>> ports to port 25. ISP's don't block email relays on ports other than 25,
>> so if the server at the other end is listening on a port other than 25 you
>> can pop3 email relays to your web hosts server from wherever you might be.
>>
>> I find web interface mail to just be too damned slow to tolerate, and
>> hotmail and some of these others get you signed up for a lot of spam and
>> BS don't they?
>>
>> Personally I'd be suspicious of any business contact that used a hotmail
>> email account.  I do have one client that uses aol email, but that's
>> because that's all he understands how to use, and just barely that.  When
>> AOL email eats document attachments I send him (or renders them unreadable
>> on his end) which happens quite a lot.  He has a Yahoo email account as a
>> back up.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> Dave Ings wrote:
>>> My ISP Sympatico (the largest in Canada) is partnered with Microsoft, to
>>> whom Sympatico outsourced email server management a couple of years ago.
>>> So at home I use a Windows email client but when on the road I use the
>>> Web client version, which is basically Hotmail with a Sympatico skin.
>>>
>>> So that's why for me. But what's behind your "right
mind" comment? Lots
>>> of people are perfectly happy to use Web based services (especially if
>>> confidentiality isn't an issue). It's certainly convenient if you travel
>>> a lot.
>
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