> I like the hotmail setup because whatever machine I am at I can get > instant > mail notification when I recieve it.. Thats pretty much the entire reason > I > use it. > > But add to that the very nice spam filter ability.. and this is one of my > most usefull and productive e-mail accounts I have.. > > I will consider swapping to one of my spare "real" e-mail accounts.. but > in > reality, this account is perfect for mail list/forum reply type usage.. >
I tend to disagree. As a large public mail server admin, I see the amount of mail that the hotmail servers bounce. It's usually because of two reasons: 1) They think that the message is spam, or 2) The IP block from which the email originated has been marked as spammer's domain. <vent> To be honest, running a mail server with mailing lists makes life a nightmare. One mailing list owner I know has a little under 3000 addresses; most of them @hotmail.com and @yahoo.com. It's become a weekly ritual for me to contact both of them to get me "whitelisted" after their automated spam filters blacklist me. Although I understand the necessity of doing what these guys do, it simply offloads work from their end to ours. In other words, for the love of you mail admin, use a different email address :) </vent> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
