Junk comes in various shapes and styles.

On the main Hotmail.com entrance page after logging in we're told that Now it's even easier to be spam free!. I don't know this particular filter does that's different from blocking messages from spammers whose mail I've already received. I've clicked on the proper button for that when I've deleted junk-messages, and for all I know I haven't gotten additional messages from those same addresses. There seem to be, however, countless other addresses that, hydra-like, spring up once one is cut down. I doubt that whatever Microsoft offers along these lines is even intended to be particularly effective, but I could be wrong.

While reading about the promise of filtering, however, I also was offered information (from the main page, even before logging in) on How to Link to Hotmail.
What can I say? I'm always on the lookout for tools that make my internet life easier. When I saw the words How to Link to Hotmail I assumed that the idea was for me to somehow create a link that would be accessible from any page that I might create that would immediately download my mail into a special table that would be constructed on the page, without having to open my Hotmail inbox, and in that way only check new mail, sort of on the fly. I guess that I shouldn't have been surprised that this wasn't what Microsoft had in mind.
(Click to find out what they did.)


Go to: My inbox runneth over.