Microsoft Announces New Hotmail Fee
In order to stop the spread of spam, Microsoft will start charging users who use Outlook or Outlook Express to access e-mail. It will stop being free in April of 2005. New Hotmail and MSN users will not be allowed to access the service via Outlook.
MSN Lead Project Manager Brooke Richardson says: "Essentially what spammers do is create scripts so they can rapid-fire e-mail from Outlook or Outlook Express and pop off a hundred e-mails from each of those Hotmail accounts in rapid succession."
Microsoft also does not allow free Hotmail users to send over 100 outgoing e-mails. Those who want to pay can pay annual fees of $19.95 for Hotmail Plus or $99.95 for MSN Premium. Yahoo! already has a similar policy for accessing its e-mail.
Once I can’t use outlook to check my Hotmail account it will be left to rot.
