Hi,
bubbles: Welcome !
I have nothing of substance to offer except an observation. I've read (on message boards, internet articles, etc.) that it
can be unwise to use the
Hotmail domain if you're using the email address for
business purposes. Apparently, some feel that that domain name is a bit 'unprofessional' sounding. They suggest
live.com or even
msn.com (all three use the same hotmail web service and interface). I have no personal opinion on that one way or the other. Just passing it along as food for thought.
popowich said:
Also, just because your friends might have Hotmail that doesn't mean you need to go with that service too.
That brings up a question I've had occasionally: If I have two accounts (say, one with
Yahoo and one with
Hotmail), and I have a friend with a
Hotmail account, is there any advantage in using
my Hotmail account to send to him ? Perhaps more reliable delivery and/or formatting since it's using the
same service ?
Also, are emails sent Hotmail-to-Hotmail vulnerable to interception by 'outsiders' the same way as if it were sent Yahoo-to-Hotmail ? That is, do such 'in house' email transmissions "enter cyberspace" before arriving at their destination or are they somehow more secure by never leaving the one provider's server system ? (I hope I'm asking this clearly and not confusing things with my inaccurate terminology...
)
Reason I ask: I recall a service a few years ago called Woomail. It didn't last, so don't bother checking for it, but
here you can find a thread at the EMD forums discussing it when it first came out. Scroll down to post #15 in that thread to see the Woomail founder's first post. The first item he mentions about his service is the following:
In a nutshell, Woomail.com gives you 5 ways to safely control online communications.
1. From your inbox, choose the Compose Woomail link. This allows you to send a instant mail to another woomailer on the same server so your message never enters cyberspace and is read in 256 bit encryption. This Woomail message arrives in the other woomailers inbox instantly. It never goes outside the Woomail system, thus “The worlds Safest Mail™.
IOW, one feature this service touted is that it (as opposed to other email services, apparently) could send email messages from one account to another
without entering cyberspace, and, therefore, not being as vulnerable as other services.
Are messages sent Yahoo-to-Yahoo or Hotmail-to-Hotmail any safer/more secure than ones sent to accounts at other providers ? Or was it only Woomail's system which 'delivered' on that ?
(FWIW, I
think PrivacyHarbor may do something similar, as well as having its 'link to message' method.)
Big Dan: Have you found that having your "common" name (w/o numbers) at Live has resulted in a ton of spam for you ? Hotmail is notorious for having poor spam filtering, no ? Just curious.
Scott