My Hotmail vendetta goes on
Sometime in the recent past, I recall myself registering to Windows Live Mail beta. Don’t ask me why. It was …impulsive.
To be frank, it was one of those “do-and-forget” situations. I’ve participated in hundreds of those. I register for betas and receive newsletters with product updates and web applications progress reports, and I always find myself wondering : when did I spend my time on that? I’m not looking down to anyone, mind you, but I guess I’m all too absent minded.
Windows Live Mail beta was one of those occasions. Thus, you imagine my fascination when I opened my cluttered Hotmail inbox one day to be greeted as “one of Hotmail VIPs”. Eh?
Apparently, I’m a Hotmail VIP member now. The joy!
OK, I merrily thought, let’s give a try to this bad guy. After registering for the new Yahoo e-mail service a few days ago, I even thought “Hey, I know! I’ll make a mini-review of both and I’ll blog it!” - btw, here’s a great way to convert your Yahoo! e-mail from Lifehacker.
My thinking-acting progress:
- Shiny Orange Button, hm, bleh.
- The little bugger is not even properly aligned. Pfft.
- Let’s click it. *hover* Hey, why doesn’t my cursor change to hand? I hate this thing! Oh well..I’ll click it either way.
- *click* *click* No click. Not clickable? Weird. Let’s scan the e-mail for a similar link.
- (some minutes later, after scanning the e-mail, clicking on all relevant links, searching around their site et cetera) That’s it, I quit. And on top of that, I’m SO blogging it.
The Shiny Orange Button
Apparently, Hotmail does not know how to manage their e-mails. That so figures.
Maybe it’s just a well concealed spam? I don’t know. Maybe I’m too naive a user? Maybe.
May 15th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Ah Hotmail, always worth blogging. Btw, did you try to read this e-mail with IE?
June 13th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
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