Bloody Hotmail

[PAH]

You have got unreasonable expectations of life - almost nothing free is worth having.

Except with the internet, where the opposite is almost true.

Don't know how their business models work (mostly relying on advertising revenue I suppose), but if there's someone charging, there's someone offering it for 'free', and providing at least as good a service.

YouTube (and all the various porn versions ), LastFM, ... the list is almost literally endless but I'm too lazy to think of others that offer free content where others are charging.

[Paddy]

Hotmail has done the right thing although I would not use Hotmail as their service is one the worst. As an IT professional you should have proper paid for email system that has proper back-ups and maintenance.The cost would be about £50 a year. If something goes wrong with a free email system you have no rights to get it resolved.

Never send exe, zip or com files etc via email. Rename the file Filename.TXT and it will go through safe. Once received rename it back again Filename.EXE

I often wonder about the IT abilities of some people on this forum.

[realityhack]

I want web based mail (I have 4 of them).

And I want it to be FREE.

What's wrong with that?

tim

Then may I recommend Gmail. Or Googlemail as it is now.

[tim123]

Hotmail has done the right thing although I would not use Hotmail as their service is one the worst. As an IT professional you should have proper paid for email system that has proper back-ups and maintenance.The cost would be about £50 a year. If something goes wrong with a free email system you have no rights to get it resolved.

Never send exe, zip or com files etc via email. Rename the file Filename.TXT and it will go through safe. Once received rename it back again Filename.EXE

I often wonder about the IT abilities of some people on this forum.

Where did I say I was an IT professional?

tim

[d000hg]

This is not a Hotmail thing. Gmail also does it, in fact Gmail will block sending a zip containing an .exe, and always has done I believe.
And many corporate email setups have exactly the same (or worse) restrictions.
Standard practice is to rename as "myfile.exe.renamed" or similar.

It's all very well you demanding your freedom to send what you want, but email hosts are more concerned protecting those receiving email.

[tim123]

It's all very well you demanding your freedom to send what you want, but email hosts are more concerned protecting those receiving email.

So you do that by not having clients that auto execute or even allow execution by double click, not by stopping someone from receiving something that is (randomly) called .exe.

Just because something is called .exe doesn't mean that it is a Windows exe (and yes I do have a real example if you want it).

If you can't determine if it is, then you shouldn't be blocking it IMHO - not that this arguement helps my case:-(.

tim