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Microsoft - Hotmail pain...

Just checked my hotmail account - which I only have so that I can use MSN Messenger because certain friends use it rather than ICQ.

MSN are now expiring unused hotmail accounts after 30 days. What a pain! They claim its to save disk space. Hmmm. More likley to ensure that the e-mail addresses they are selling to third parties are good ones - thereby bringing in more income. I have had loads of spam in my hotmail account and yet have never used the address anywhere...

MSN Hotmail account expiration policy
Please be sure to sign in to your MSNŽ Hotmail account every 30 days. If you don't, your account will become inactive, and:
You will lose all e-mails and attachments in your Inbox and other folders
All of your incoming e-mail will be rejected
You will lose all contacts in your Address Book

Unfortunately, this information cannot be recovered.* As a valued Hotmail member, we want to make sure you know that subscribing to MSN Extra Storage exempts you from this account expiration policy. It's the smartest way to prevent the loss of all the important information in your MSN Hotmail account.

Posted by Simon at May 3, 2002 6:21 AM

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Comments

1 January 30, 2004 4:06 AM Andy

Just abou anyone with a hotmail.com or msn.com e-mail address is going to get spam. Not becasue the addresses are harvested or sold by Hotmail, but simply because spammers know that generating e-mail addresses with these extentions will get a high hit rate (there are over 100 million such addresses). The only way to avoid it is to have a rediculously long e-mail address.

2 December 21, 2004 8:45 PM ExMSNEmployee

Actually, MSN does sell email addresses.