From: "Rich Gauszka" 

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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