I was not surprised when I heard this. Emails and invitations sent to Hotmail from Gmail accounts do not fail, or get misclassified as SPAM or “bulk” mail. Nor do they arrive in the recipient’s Inbox at all - they mysteriously disappear into oblivion. I, personally, experienced this recently when I tried to send someone a Gmail invite to their Hotmail account. The person complained that even after I had re-forwarded the invite three times to them, that they had seen no trace of the message. I’ve also heard that several ISPs are blocking Gmail. It’s been well-documented that Yahoo mistakenly moves Gmail invites into the Bulk Mail folder and I’ve personally confirmed the Hotmail blocking. Now, no one has been able to prove that any of this is fact or some ploy in the competition between the web mail elders. It is merely a string of random isolated incidents, that all seem to point to “server error.” (Please note my sarcasm.) I honestly think that this is exactly something Microsoft would to keep Gmail out of the running. That is, of course, my personal opinion, and has not been proven at all-

-b