Hotmail now 25MB, at least its a start

Darkman9999 · 19-05-2006 9:28am #1

I just checked my hotmail and my storage is now 25mb, its still lame, gmail is much better

jhegarty · 19-05-2006 9:30am

Darkman9999 wrote:

I just checked my hotmail and my storage is now 25mb, its still lame, gmail is much better

and I cleared out my account dut to space yesterday.....

WizZard · 19-05-2006 10:52am

Huh, I have a 2GB hotmail (well, Windows Live Mail) account? Is everyone not signed up for that beta yet?

Sam Vimes · 19-05-2006 3:30pm

you can get 250mb by doing this:

set your country to america, state to florida, zip to 33332

close the account

go to the normal login page, the one where you have to enter your address, not the one that remembers your address so you only have to enter the password

it'll ask if you want to activate the account. click activate and click past the few pages of ads. the size will be 25mb and may or may not go up to 250mb. it seems to randomly pick which ones it increases.

closing the account doesn't delete your email

weeder · 19-05-2006 3:33pm

this kept mine at 25MB when i did it

eamoss · 19-05-2006 3:41pm

WizZard wrote:

Huh, I have a 2GB hotmail (well, Windows Live Mail) account? Is everyone not signed up for that beta yet?

Yeah I have 2GBs as well on hotmail. Signed up months ago dont like the way you have to download the photos 2 ur HD to view them. :mad:

Hobbes · 19-05-2006 3:46pm

I have 2.725 GB on gmail at the moment and it still increases (although not as fast as it used to).

MunsterCycling · 19-05-2006 5:23pm

weeder wrote:

this kept mine at 25MB when i did it

Takes a couple of weeks sometimes to get the upgrade but then agian why bother when 2.7 GB is available from GMail straight away.

Munster

edanto · 19-05-2006 5:28pm

I've had 2GB with yahoo for ages - is the only reason for staying with hotmail just to keep the address? I've heard it's a bit spammy too, that right?

mneylon · 19-05-2006 5:33pm

Why would you want to use hotmail?

JackKelly · 19-05-2006 6:22pm

why would you need 2 gigs?

SirLemonhead · 19-05-2006 6:28pm

blacknight wrote:

Why would you want to use hotmail?

I've had my hotmail account for about 7 or 8 years. Handy to get extra space if you have an account you'd like to keep. Did the 250 meg increase a year or so ago and havent bothered deleting emails since

mobileplaza · 19-05-2006 6:48pm

who still uses hotmail these days?? gmail is where its at!

optiplexgx270 · 19-05-2006 7:35pm

I have 4.725Gb between gmail and Windows Live mail using approx 900Mb of space (3800 mails) in gmail and hotmail is empty bar spam.

Laguna · 19-05-2006 7:42pm

My hotmail account is my main email account (out of habit, as its the email I'm known by and is the contact email for when I buy things from the online stores), 25mb makes it almost useable now, I don't have to delete every second email I receive after a day.

I have a Gmail account but to be honest, I just don't like it, as soon as I set it up (prior to actually giving to anyone) my account became full of spam, Viagra this; webspace that, seems like Google gave my address to anyone who wanted it the day I signed up.

MunsterCycling · 19-05-2006 7:47pm

Never had a single spam in GMail, hotmail full of the Cr@p. Just report the spam as such instead of deleting it and they will try to trace it and block the sender in future.

Kiith · 19-05-2006 7:49pm

i personnally can't stand gmail. the interface pisses me off to no end. far prefer hotmail, even if it has a much smaller capacity.

19-05-2006 7:59pm

Have received about 5 spam messages in my Gmail account, had it more than a year now. They all were caught by the filter. I somehow doubt Google would jeopardise their position by selling lists to spammers

drdre · 19-05-2006 8:01pm

i have 2gb, 25 mb is nothing.
haha:D

drdre · 19-05-2006 8:02pm

MunsterCycling wrote:

Never had a single spam in GMail, hotmail full of the Cr@p. Just report the spam as such instead of deleting it and they will try to trace it and block the sender in future.

i have gmail and have had a bit of spam,where do they find the email address as i donot even use that account much

SeanW · 19-05-2006 8:14pm

Yahoo! Mail FTW.

jozi · 19-05-2006 9:34pm

No spam in my gmail, none anymore in hotmail, loads in my ancient esatclear one (daily at least 3).

I assume its random email.address@whoever.yourwith and they just send it crap in the hope you buy into it, which must happen loads

mollser · 20-05-2006 10:13am

imo, the new revamped yahoo mail is streets ahead of any of the others - 1gig, and the interface is tremendous, its just like using Outlook or Lotus notes on the web. And i can honestly say that NO spam gets through to the inbox, there is a mailbox for the spam that can be checked, but very little goes in there either.

And isn't there a thing about google scanning your mails for targeted advertising? Dodge.

optiplexgx270 · 20-05-2006 10:53am

mollser wrote:

imo, the new revamped yahoo mail is streets ahead of any of the others - 1gig, and the interface is tremendous, its just like using Outlook or Lotus notes on the web. And i can honestly say that NO spam gets through to the inbox, there is a mailbox for the spam that can be checked, but very little goes in there either.

And isn't there a thing about google scanning your mails for targeted advertising? Dodge.

Who gives a crap what they scan i couldnt care less if the scan it or even read it themselves its only email not like i send private info from it.

And i just checked my yahoo (first time in a year) and the ads suck at least in google you dont notice them at all no flash/gif rubbish.

"No humans will read the content of your email in order to target such advertisements or related information. Because the ads and related pages are matched to information that is of interest to you, we hope you'll find them relevant and useful. "

Hotmail now 25MB, at least its a start

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