Monthly Archives: March 2008

March Madness Waiting Room

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CBS is offering on demand viewing of all this year’s NCAA tournament games.
The first game tips off at about 12:20 EDT and the on demand doors just opened (11:54 EDT).
A few minutes ago there were 218,000 users in the combined general admission and VIP waiting rooms. Already over 70,000 VIP users are in the arena and there are currently 141,000 general admission users just starting to enter.
CBS must have a huge server farm and L…O…T…S of bandwidth ready to go.

It will be interesting to see what the quality of the viewing experience will be.

Why Would You Use Microsoft Hotmail?

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That’s a good question.
Microsoft gives you some reasons.
The answer, though, is that maybe you shouldn’t except as an absolute last resort:

However, some tests I ran over the weekend shed some light on some of the ways that Hotmail/MSN/Live.com handle spam: They apparently are simply deleting inbound email with no bounce messages, no flags, no notification — nothing.
I can replicate this at will. When I send an email from my mailserver (located on a commercial circuit) to my gmail.com account, live.com account, and other personal accounts, they all arrive — except to my live.com/Hotmail account. It simply never appears, and no bounce message is ever seen.

If Microsoft is really dropping legitimate emails without any notification to the sender or the receiver then, well, it is time to drop Microsoft mail services.