Sunday, October 15, 2006
Hotmail Hates Me
I typed up my post from noon yesterday and mailed it to my home account from work. So here I am at home reviewing my mail account on Hotmail.com, but I can't find what I sent. There is a mess of Spam, which I mark and delete as Spam (why does this never seem to make a dent in future Spam?) In the Spam folder I find a couple of pieces of mail from me, but not the one I want. I un-Spam them, which I have done before with other mail I have sent myself from work, but it never seems to learn, plus it seems that if I send two pieces it only keeps the first (which is what I did today) and thus have nothing to work with tonight.
Next time I must remember to send mail to both my Hotmail and Gmail accounts. I notice that the Gmail account, which goes for weeks at time without being looked at, is completely empty of Spam. In fact the only mail in it is from my wife who mostly sends me pictures to this address. I have a third email account I use specifically for online purchases. It gets lots of Spam, some uninvited, some from the various companies I have ordered online from. I try to stay unsubscribed to the latter, but the unsubscribe links they provide don't always work.
The junk free Gmail account may not be so much a product of Gmail superiority (then again it may), but because Nian is the only person on the planet that knows it's address. It speaks strongly for having opt in only mail systems. I need to research if Gmail or Hotmail can be setup this way.
Damn it sucks to have a two-day old post that I still can't post. The real question is why real Spam gets through, but Hotmail.com thinks what I write is Spam. Maybe it's a slight on the quality of my writing...
