This is a copied from a news forum (I use Firefox/Thunderbird already). Could it answer why people aren't getting their replies from Hotels if using Hotmail addy's?
"Internet Explorer Unsafe for 284 Days in 2006
Brian Krebs, lead Computer Security reporter for the Washington Post has released a fascinating study of IE security issues last year.
"After compiling security information from leading security watchers, Krebs determined that for 284 days last year there was widely available exploit code available for unpatched IE issues.
For a total 284 days in 2006 (or more than nine months out of the year), exploit code for known, unpatched critical flaws in pre-IE7 versions of the browser was publicly available on the Internet. Likewise, there were at least 98 days last year in which no software fixes from Microsoft were available to fix IE flaws that criminals were actively using to steal personal and financial data from users.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/techn...ex20070104.html
Related:
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/200...big-picture.htm
In a total of ten cases last year, instructions detailing how to leverage "critical" vulnerabilities in IE were published online before Microsoft had a patch to fix them.
In contrast, Internet Explorer's closest competitor in terms of market share -- Mozilla's Firefox browser -- experienced a single period lasting just nine days last year in which exploit code for a serious security hole was posted online before Mozilla shipped a patch to remedy the problem.
--webmasterworld.com 2007-01-17"
"That's the reason why I am using Firefox.
With No-script and Coockie-safe, Firefox is safer and faster.
Even my spelling got better when version 2 came out! :"
"I agree with this. The two don't even remotely compare. I also set up a google mail account which is a really great free email service."
"Watch out for Google Mail (gmail), Hotmail and AOL mail programs. Those providers block emails coming from some Thai-IP-Adresses, because they consider this mail automatically as spam. That means, a Thai person using a mail account with a local provider (i.e. maxnet) can send a mail out to you, but you will never receive it!"
"It is not just Thai addresses it is common the world over, and many ISP's subscribe to black lists. For a period of time my Aussie ISP, Ozemail was on the blacklist. The problem is when an ISP leave open the port that used to send email, you know when you configure outgoing to SMPT.xxx.com etc. Spammers can use that to generate spam, thus the ISP gets banned."