My complaint is completely valid. I don't see why it shouldn't be. I can complain to my heart's content about having a feature taken away from me by a provider that has fallen miles in their service already.

Hotmail has to make quite a bit of cash off of the ads on their site. I can't imagine that the 5 (*edit* scratch that, about 15) banner ads and 2 pop-ups I get a session don't pay for my <2MB of space. I also can't imagine that POP3 access costs them very much. I still have my 2MB of space and just filling it with different email.

So what else is this move other than a way to get extra dough from people? I'm open to a reasonable explanation.


Plus, if you'll notice, most of my own post was complaining about their overall lousy service. I recently signed someone up for a Hotmail account, and the very first time I checked their inbox, they had a welcome letter from MSN and 2 or 3 spam messages. That's inexcusable. Plus, their filters are useless.

All Hotmail is now for me is merely an address used for online forms.