Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites) 894
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.
Stunning (Score:5, Funny)
Unable to verify... (Score:5, Funny)
But I won't let that stop me from posting it!
No world record there (Score:2, Funny)
I don't want to be nasty, but ... (Score:5, Funny)
A New Era? (Score:4, Funny)
Are the editors finally trying to verify things around here?
If that's the case, I commend them.
So thats why! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:MS & Google (Score:5, Funny)
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For more info, I send you this file in order to have your advice.
/dev/null (Score:2, Funny)
Hmm, better test my account then (Score:1, Funny)
Unfortunate legal names (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dunno about you lot but... (Score:3, Funny)
When this story was sitting in the queue, didn't is just sound a bit "too good to be true" (from the conspiracy side of things)?
Finally - should we be getting a Gmail icon with all of these Gmail stories?
1. Make Slashdot Joke.
2. ?????
3. Get Gmail Invite!!!!
Please note: I've not been able to verify this one (Score:2, Funny)
Great work.
Re:Blog crap (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dunno about you lot but... (Score:3, Funny)
Purely in the interest of "research" of course. ;)
Re:Blog crap (Score:3, Funny)
That would explain the spotty coverage.
Re:Blog crap (Score:3, Funny)
I will test it if you send the invite (Score:3, Funny)
Clever ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stunning (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Unable to verify... (Score:3, Funny)
Suddenly... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stunning (Score:4, Funny)
Re:MS & Google (Score:2, Funny)
It's the safest! No one ever can read it!
Re:Yep. It's true. (Score:3, Funny)
HULK SMASH PUNY HOTMAIL ACCOUNT!!
RAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!
whatever...
Me Thinks He Wants An Invite... (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, I think that's the crux of it.
Actually, when a kind slashdotter sent me an invite, Yahoo didn't move it or block it...
Re:Stunning (Score:5, Funny)
mgrassi99@yahoo.com
mikegrassi@hotmail.com
-M
WHAT IS A GMAIL INVITE? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Stunning (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, I doubt that they never told anyone. Likely they decided not to tell just you. Do you really believe that you lost touch with them by accident???
Re:WHAT IS A GMAIL INVITE? (Score:1, Funny)
Thanks.
Re:Stunning (Score:2, Funny)
They told people, they just didn't tell you. Sorry to be the one to tell you that... ;)
Re:Stunning (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I hate liberals (Score:1, Funny)
Isn't it nice to beat 'em in to a pulp
That guy ain't like you
Hurry, take him out
It's as good as sex
To kick the fucker about
Re:WHAT IS A GMAIL INVITE? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Stunning (Score:3, Funny)
Private domain: $8 a year.
Virtual server on a high speed backbone: $20 a month.
Having unlimited email addresses you can keep for the rest of your life: Priceless.
But I charge mine to American Express.
Re:WHAT IS A GMAIL INVITE? (Score:2, Funny)
Re: For me??? (Score:2, Funny)
It's cheap
It's fun
It's timeless
It's a Gmail invitation!!! Yeah!
ryankelley at comcast dot net
if yer feelin generous!
Re:Stunning (Score:2, Funny)
I fondly remember those days installing those newfangled Western Digital 1.6 GB Caviar drives working at the Mom & Pop Computer Shop. Those puppies were selling like hotcakes for about $200, and I remember having to walk a mile to and from the bus stop where I had to ride for an half hour trip and hoof it for another mile, barefoot, in the snow, uphill both directions....with only 2400 baud.
AND BY GOLLY WE LIKED IT!
Almost 10 years later, you kids have it so easy these days. They keep making the drives bigger and faster and cheaper and smaller. These days a 160GB drive only goes for a measly 77 clams. Oh yeah, those guys over at Google were smart. Establish their presence first, and invest in ungodly amounts of hard drive space for dirt cheap. It's 2004, why on earth wouldn't those companies that did it in the 90s be pissed off about it.
HEY, GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMN KIDS!
Re:Stunning (Score:3, Funny)
Erm... Yahoo account 10 years ago? I'm pretty sure Yahoo was just a tilde account at stanford.edu 10 years ago, or just getting started at yahoo.com. I don't think they had "accounts" til much, much later.
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html [yahoo.com]
Just a little historical eyebrow-raise. Unless your name happens to be "Jerry Yang" or "David Filo", in which case, my apologies.
-h3
Re:WHAT IS A GMAIL INVITE? (Score:4, Funny)
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Note, taking out the bullshit won't get a real email address.