Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails - slashdot

[Wonk]

Posted by Hemos on Monday June 21, @09:19AM
from the intereting-tests dept.
bonhomme_de_neige writes "Emails and invitations sent to Hotmail from Gmail accounts do not bounce, but nor do they arrive in the recipient's Inbox - they vanish mysteriously into the aether. Joel Johnson writes in his Gizmodo weblog that invitations he sent to a Hotmail address bounced (this even received coverage from ZDNet). Search Engine Roundtable writes that several ISPs are blocking Gmail. It's already well-documented that Yahoo moves Gmail invites into the Bulk Mail folder. I've personally confirmed the Hotmail and Yahoo blocking." Please note: I've not been able to verify this one way or another.

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http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/21/1150236.shtml?tid=126&tid=217&tid=95

[FloridaPat]

1. What's gmail?

[Renew Deal]

3. You don't know?

j/k It's google's future public email service.

[Sparky McGruff]

5. Gmail is a new free email service from Google

Gmail is a new free email service from Google. I believe its main selling points is an enormous helping of disk space for email (1 GB), In response to the presumed popularity of this service, Hotmail and Yahoo mail services have already increased the user disk space form their services.

Gmail is supposed to be "paid for" by including advertising in emails, in a manner that is somewhat controversial. It hasn't been released yet, but you can get to the info page at http://gmail.google.com.

But this can't possibly be true. Microsoft would NEVER abuse it's status as a market leader, just because it can. </sarcasm>

[Renew Deal]

2. That's f'd up.

Microsoft is the GWB of the internet.

[kysrsoze]

7. Microsoft bites ass. I hate that company. Oh, and hotmail sucks!

A lousy 2 friggin' megabytes for the free account (plus all the awful advertising). Screw them.

[hang a left]

4. ?

What is this and what does it mean?

[foo_bar]

6. if it becomes corporate policy

it means email systems will become proprietary in the sense of not obeying a common standard. Instead of rejecting mail for being spam or too big, non-technical corporate needs would determine the fate of your individual email.

The real problem is, email puts most of the financial burden on the recipient, so an email service provider is "better off" storing less of it. Typically this is achieved with storage quotas on everyone's account, but Google raised the stakes by offering 100x as much storage space. Google's competitors subsequently raised their quotas price war style, so they're looking for new ways to cut corners. I guess pissing off millions of customers is one way to do it.

[hang a left]

8. Thank you. n/t

[Mnemosyne]

9. I checked this out the other day

and they will be reading your email and sending you ads based on content. sh*theads!

[abburdlen]

10. Please

check it out again. That is NOT how Gmail works. Folks that use Gmail have ads displayed on their screen, much like the ads that show up when you do searches on google. No one gets ads sent to them- well at least not from google.

[missile_bender]

11. This is my experience.

My wife has hotmail and I sent her gmail invitations which never arrived. And gmail sent to my yahoo account did indeed go into my bulk mail folder.

I wondered what was up.

[Almost_there]

12. Send me a gmail invite!! haha

I have been trying to get a gmail invite, and I can totally believe hotmail and yahoo would do this. The junk thing in yahoo MIGHT be explained, since gmail is an "unknown" server, and Yahoo's program might just view it as spam until otherwise changed.

[gratuitous]

13. So Hotmail blocks gmail

But all those vital penis enlargement emails sail right through. Thanks Mr. Gates; I trust you to decide what's important to me.

Dicknose.

[missile_bender]

14. eBay has gmail invites for auction

for less than $1.

Just go into eBay and search for gmail.