Internet: Has Hotmail Frozen?

Has Hotmail Frozen?

Written by Martin Winer

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bane of email everywhere. Hotmail has made some attempts at handling spam, but they're not quite there yet. Hotmail puts suspected spam email into repparttar 118385

junk mail folder. But how does Hotmail basuspect them as spam in repparttar 118386

first place? The first time a spam sender sends out a message to many hotmail users, repparttar 118387

email is delivered into their inboxes. Users then have to report this email as spam before hotmail even knows repparttar 118388

message is spam. By that time repparttar 118389

damage is already done. Hundreds or thousands of users have opened that message, bogging down repparttar 118390

hotmail servers. Spam senders are also, much smarter than Hotmails filters and simply change words and graphics here and there to appear to be a completely different message. The correct behaviour ought to be, put all messages not in repparttar 118391

user's contact list automatically into junk mail. Then repparttar 118392

user can remove any messages that weren't junk by adding those people to their contacts list. A convenience would be a display of all addresses in repparttar 118393

junk folder that tried to contact you with a brief subject line. This pane would have a simple check box and submit button to allow you to import that person into your contact list.

In repparttar 118394 interim, while repparttar 118395 software gods jostle for market share supremacy, what are we mere users to do? We really have very little choice. I will email this article to my editor using Gmail, simply because Hotmail is broken. Perhaps our collective use of other web mail providers will light a fire under repparttar 118396 Hotmail architects and we can have a workeable solution to this problem soon.

Martin Winer is a computer scientist developing http://www.rankyouragent.com which is a forum for ranking real estate professionals.

Online text messaging and pc to mobile texting

Written by Marinda Stuiver

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Should users prefer internet text messaging, they could log into repparttar website with repparttar 118384 same username and password and send messages. Online phone book, message history, WAP bookmarking and business cards are available to web site users.

Handset to handset texting limits users to sending one message at a time - a very frustrating excercise when one has a list of friends to contact. SMSwarehouse web SMS allows users to create a list of numbers (comma seperated), save repparttar 118385 file as a text file in a memorable place on their pc and upload it to repparttar 118386 web for bulk sms. One short message is typed and despatched to repparttar 118387 numbers on repparttar 118388 list with a throughput of 3 sms/second and works on any computer that has access to repparttar 118389 web. ....more sms-2 No installation, no maintenance, no training is required. When updates are done, repparttar 118390 web site will display repparttar 118391 upgraded version of repparttar 118392 software and users will be advised of repparttar 118393 latest upgrade and added features.

"This product is real easy to use and I have had great feedback from clients with whom I communicated via sms using PositiveSMS" says Mr. Christo Els, Restauranteur in Secunda, Mpumalanga South Africa. SMME's could especially benefit from this product as repparttar 118394 software is distributed as freeware with users only paying per SMS. It opens up repparttar 118395 world of text messaging for smaller business in areas where mobile telecommunication is available for example restaurants, liquor stores, guest houses as well as educational institutions (schools, universities, colleges).

PositiveSMS is distributed by SMSwarehouse and has been launched on http://www.smswarehouse.com or for South Africa http://www.smswarehouse.co.za.

Marinda Stuiver has been working in the marketing industry since 1996. She worked as International sales and marketing consultant for Station Africa Telecoms where one of her responsibilities was media liaison during sponsored events such as the Camel Trophy 4X4 events, Kathy O’Dowd’s firs ascent of Mt Everest, the 1999 BT sponsored Vasco da Gama Yacht race and many more.

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