After Google released their beta of Gmail, most of the other big web mail providers where quick to announce upgrades to their own offerings. Few have thus far shown much commitment to back up their announcements. Hotmail announced for example, that they would be offering 25MB for their free web mail accounts and later upgrading that to 250mb, but as of yet, not very many people are benefiting from these new mailbox sizes.

TheInquirer have an article here, detailing how they were able to trick Hotmail into upgrading their Hotmail account from 2MB up to 25MB, and it’s surprisingly easy to do. It’s certainly worth a read, even if you’re one of the few that already have 25MB Hotmail accounts, because you’re bound to know somebody labouring away with only 2MB. I have my own Hotmail account, but I only use it to give people I think will send me spam, so I’m not particularly fussed.

This article was posted on Tuesday, January 18th, 2005 at 11:51 am