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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the some-things-only-exist-as-a-warning-to-others dept.

Ars Technica has an article over the background behind Hotmail and how it aquired the stigma it has since its purchase back in 1997 for $450 million. Over the years it served as a showcase for several types of failure, including the inability of Windows servers to work in production or to scale.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:21PM (4 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:21PM (#616812) Journal

    Because I can white list my inbox. Only contacts get in. Plus it's my only email address that hasn't changed in 15 years. And it's still free. Damn ISPs being traded like baseball cards made using their email a living hell.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:50PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:50PM (#616823)

    Same reason I still use a Yahoo address. Their spam filtering works well, perceived availability is over three 9s, and the address doesn't change every other year.

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday January 02 2018, @07:11PM (1 child)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 02 2018, @07:11PM (#616829) Journal

      I have several hundreds of Yahoo addresses that I haven't looked at for years. They could even be gone for all I know. Last I checked (about 2016) the few that I tried still were there and could be logged in.

      When several high profile breaches of Yahoo email occurred, it led me to wonder:
      * what percent of my email accounts are affected? (not that I care)
      * what percent of the hacked email accounts are mine? (not that I care)

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      • (Score: 5, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday January 02 2018, @07:47PM

        by frojack (1554) on Tuesday January 02 2018, @07:47PM (#616848) Journal

        Various of those providers have powered up two factor authentication - for those accounts you care even a little bit about.

        I had old yahoo account hacked/stolen and used by a guy in India. He changed the password.
        It took him a year to realized that I had it set up to forward a copy to another account, and was reading his mail to his girlfriend in the UK?

        Who steals free email accounts? This was years before the widely published breaches.

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday January 02 2018, @08:26PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday January 02 2018, @08:26PM (#616874) Journal

    ISP email? The only use for ISP email is getting the damn copier to send emails using their barely secured SMTP servers.