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Agamemnon · 10-15-2004, 04:38 PM

Earlier today I was almost full up in my 2 meg account. After logging in a few seconds ago, it appears I've been upgraded to 250 megs. I've talked to some friends, and it seems that some got the upgrade, and some didn't? Has anyone heard anything about this?

Seems like an effort to combat Google's Gmail

lucid · 10-15-2004, 04:39 PM

Yahoo did that a couple months ago. Very nice, indeed.

Calgary Flames · 10-15-2004, 04:43 PM

Gmail is still much better. I have 5 accounts. want one? PM me with your email address.

RedHot25 · 10-15-2004, 05:04 PM

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Originally posted by Agamemnon@Oct 15 2004, 10:38 PM
Earlier today I was almost full up in my 2 meg account. After logging in a few seconds ago, it appears I've been upgraded to 250 megs. I've talked to some friends, and it seems that some got the upgrade, and some didn't? Has anyone heard anything about this?

Seems like an effort to combat Google's Gmail

Yup, I've had that as well. Actually had it for a couple of weeks probably now....did you just get it? I thought everybody had it now.

Yup, Yahoo has it as well. Microsoft just catching up with the times/everyone else i guess.

Agamemnon · 10-15-2004, 05:21 PM

Yeah, a buddy and I both got it at noon today. Maybe they're staggering the upgrades alphabetically or something.

BlackArcher101 · 10-16-2004, 01:25 AM

Damn, I still have the crappy 2mb staring at me in the face. My inbox fills in about 4 hours. Curse you MS for forgetting me!

greerb · 10-16-2004, 12:10 PM

Not Like I really care but it is nice to see Microsft trying to do something. I would recomend Gmail as well 1gig of storage.

Otto-matic · 10-16-2004, 12:57 PM

I still got the 2mb too,

Stupid MS.

Oh well i dont uses Hotmail too much so its not a problem. I use Yahoo alot.

sjwalter · 10-16-2004, 03:21 PM

Not that i ever need it.

Is MSN owned by Microsoft?

kipperfan · 10-16-2004, 03:38 PM

I guess the most succsessful company in the nation can break off a little storage space for us drones, that was nice of Bill.

Agamemnon · 10-16-2004, 03:39 PM

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Originally posted by sjwalter@Oct 16 2004, 09:21 PM
Not that i ever need it.

Is MSN owned by Microsoft?

Doesn't MSN stand for Microsoft Network(ing)?

I'm pretty darn sure they own MSN and Hotmail... and a big stake in MSNBC too!

sjwalter · 10-16-2004, 03:46 PM

I believe it is, not sure though.

It hasn't affected mine yet.

Dedly · 10-16-2004, 05:10 PM

Wow, nice. I didn't notice when it happened, but I have mine now... my % usage went from 66% to 1%.

Inferno · 10-16-2004, 05:15 PM

It's still at 2 for me but I really dont care because the only email I get through Hotmail is the Flames Insider emails since for some reason they dont send to my MTS account so I changed my emial to my hotmail account and they now send.

Fobulous · 10-16-2004, 06:58 PM

Yeah I got the 250 as well.

Its funny how they did this now after I got so frustrated with my hotmail (which at one point only gave users 1 mb) that I turned to another provider

:angry:

Cowboy · 10-17-2004, 04:01 PM

Got it as well..Which will help because I can not seem to access my GMAIL account from home. The Sign On box just has the same thing you get when you try enter a webpage and it doesn't exist. Anyone know what the problem is?

Otto-matic · 10-17-2004, 07:04 PM

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Originally posted by Cowboy@Oct 17 2004, 04:01 PM
Got it as well..Which will help because I can not seem to access my GMAIL account from home. The Sign On box just has the same thing you get when you try enter a webpage and it doesn't exist. Anyone know what the problem is?

I might have the same problem but I dont know.

I click on the log on but I cannot type anything into it.

What I do,

I click Forgot Password and it just lets me type it in.

Cowboy · 10-17-2004, 08:08 PM

res://C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHDOCLC.DLL/dnserror.htm#https://www.google.com/accounts/Serv...le.com%2Fgmail

That is what comes up for the URL... When I right click on the box where the login is supposed to be (I got that from "properties")

I don't even get an option to click anywher for Login, Password or Forgot Password...

First this comes up in a box

This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items.

I click yes

then this in the spot where the login is supposed to be

"This page cannot be displayed" with the rant "The page you are looking for.." It mentions something about adjust browser settings but I can't seem to figure out which one.

Agamemnon · 10-18-2004, 01:10 AM

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Originally posted by Cowboy@Oct 18 2004, 02:08 AM
res://C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHDOCLC.DLL/dnserror.htm#https://www.google.com/accounts/Serv...le.com%2Fgmail

That is what comes up for the URL... When I right click on the box where the login is supposed to be (I got that from "properties")

I don't even get an option to click anywher for Login, Password or Forgot Password...

First this comes up in a box

This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items.

I click yes

then this in the spot where the login is supposed to be

"This page cannot be displayed" with the rant "The page you are looking for.." It mentions something about adjust browser settings but I can't seem to figure out which one.

Yeah, wierd, that happened to me too the first couple times I tried to use my Gmail account. Then it went away.

Try that :P