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[alfredglenstein]

I bet if it weren't for Gmail, we'd still be seeing 2mb email accounts at Hotmail. Hotmail is kind of rediculous. But, if you use Firefox, and are stuck with Hotmail for whatever reason, there is a solution.

You can go to Mozdev.org and get the Firefox extention called "Remove it Permanently" or RIP (what a cool acronym). It enables you to right click, and choose to remove any part of any web page! This is great for advertisements. If you right click, a little blinking rectangle will surround the thing you are about to remove on the page, then you can choose to remove it. Sounds complicated but it is just as easy as copying and pasting.

Then, every time you come back to that page, the ad (or whatever else you choose to remove) will be gone. I think its a useful utility that helps with things like Hotmail, again, in case you are stuck with it for MSN messenger or whatever other reason. If you want something back, you can undo it, or go to a menu that shows everything you've blocked from the page and restore it.

I bet Microsoft would put up more ads, or offer less space, if it could get away with it, but thankfully Gmail has put pressure on them to be less crappy, and to come out with a more solid search offering than the cluttered mess they had before.

But there are lots of good alternatives, besides even Gmail. Par exemple (I know I know that's totally wrong)- Hriders.com (one terrabyte, and they don't care if you use it for storage), Mailnation.net (one terrabyte, they DO care, 10mb attatchment limit), 30gigs.com (that's right, and a good email system too). There's got to be other cools ones as well.

So yeah. I used to use MSN, but the GMail/30gigs/Mailnation and Remove It Permanently realm is where I found myself.

[icemarle]

Haha... I never really used Hotmail that much. Everyone else here had Yahoo! in their eyes. Not really the best, but it's better than Hotmail, that's for sure. In fact, I hardly used Hotmail, that my account expired on me countless times, and I have no reason to bring it back again. I'm currently sticking to my Gmail, which is good enough for me, and my Yahoo! public email address. I use my Gmail for work and personal conversations, and my Yahoo! for my site and other misc. things that require my email address. I only use my Yahoo! as a decoy, cause I don't really care if it gets spammed. Hotmail? Blegh...

[kelvinismyname]

BACK in the Internet Ice age hotmail was a good service but,

but comparing it to gmail now,hotmail seems to be the last choice email

service,it Gui is slow and outdated and its lacks the features that the

great Gmail has, i beleive that the only reason people still use it,is

because of MSN messenger, if you want a great email service i

strongly reccomend Gmail or Yahoo, I would never in a lifetime use

Hotmail as my main Email Service cuz it totall sucks.

[Togi]

Haha.. back in the day, I used Hotmail, because I was a newb and didnt know any better ^^
Then I found Gmail, and kept my Hotmail account around to use for places that required me to register, so they could send the spam there.
Now, however, I dont even want to send my spam to Hotmail.. I feel bad for the poor spam messages, haha.
Oh well.. Hotmail tries.. well, no, actually they dont. XD;

[midnightvamp]

Oh yea, Hotmail = evil... I used to like it... it seemed decent enough, until, I had to send and receive emails where things were time sensitive, and I wasn't getting things at a reasonable speed anymore. I was getting things sometimes days after they were sent.

Then, about two weeks ago, I got a message in my email, that was from December... that was the kicker. A month and a half later! No more Hotmail for me. Gmail is my new provider.

[sheepdog]

Weird! I actually like Hotmail. Or I did until this recent change where all the messages from one person are lumped together, and the only problem with that is if I have already sent them a reply, and forgot to tell them something, if I click on it again, I send the message to myself. Haven't figured out how to avoid that one yet, other than deleting my address and copy/pasting theirs in place of it, providing I can find it somewhere in the body of the email message.

I have the original hotmail account I started with 10 or 11 years ago. I did also start the paid part, it's like $20 a year or less. I have a ton of emails in it, and no commercials. More than enough space.

[CalebFTW]

i have never used hotmail but you make it sound pretty bad i use gmail but i mainly use cpannel email because its hard to get my domain name to send me spam and its fast and no name is already taken but thats just my two cents
~calebFTW