Re: Hotmail email has pop-ups?

From: An0nYm0u$ (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/04/04 

Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 13:24:51 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>Hotmail is a big outfit--there could be differences,
or "tests" to see what
>the users think of something or other.

No, I'm not getting the pop-up where Microsoft, MSN,
and/or Microsoft is asking me to "fill out a survey" or
anything like that. It's a "regular" pop-up advertising
lobster, Classmates.com, or some other thing.

>I really wouldn't expect this--Microsoft has pop-up
blocking in their MSN
>toolbar, and in the version of IE that comes with XP SP2--
so they aren't
>likely to be promoting the technology.
>
>But I don't know how to explain what you are seeing.

I didn't expect Microsoft to bombard me with a pop-up
either, especially with their rhetoric about privacy
issues for users, etc.

I'm still at a loss for words as to why I'm getting a pop-
up when I'm logging into Hotmail. (Ironically, I just
signed in twice recently and I didn't get a pop-up!!! Is
the Microsoft gods listening to me?)

Again, I know it's not just me, as I've said in my last
post that I logged into my Hotmail email account from
another computer and that person's pop-up blocker blocked
a pop-up there as well.

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