[clue-tech] how much room?

[Peter Kuykendall]

Yeah I get that all the time.  Mostly it's the whitelist and also inertia. 
Plus chicken and egg; as long as I need an XP VM for *something*, it's easy 
to keep Hotmail going via OE.  The moment that there is a viable Visio 
replacement I'll have lost my only real reason for running the XP VM, and 
that's when I'll almost certainly pull the pin on Hotmail.

My most useful email account is at Hushmail.  However, I'm not at all 
convinced that their buisness model is viable over the long haul, else I 
would have migrated entirely to that already.

- Pete


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Fierro" <miguelito at biffster.org>
To: <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] how much room?


> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:47:22 -0700
> "Peter Kuykendall" <peterkuykendall at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was driven to this solution due to MS' most recent breakage of their
>> Hotmail web interface with non-MS browsers.  I've been using various
>> kluges under Ubuntu for some years now (currently stable hotsmtp and
>> hotpop, buggy Thunderbird webmail), but there's a lot of dark talk about
>> MS scheming to break those in the near future.  So I threw in the towel
>> and started running the XP VM with OE.  It actually works perfectly.  I
>
> I am sure you are expecting this question. I'll be the first to ask: why 
> keep a hotmail account? Why not switch to something that uses standard 
> protocols, such as pop and imap?
>
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