[Sealobo]

Keep your MSN Hotmail account active by signing in at least once a month. If you do not sign in for 30 days, your account will become inactive and:

-You will lose all messages and attachments currently in your Inbox and other folders.

-All incoming e-mail messages will bounce back to the sender.

-You will lose all contacts in your Contacts list.

This information cannot be recovered, so be sure to sign in at least once a month.

You can avoid the hassle of signing in once a month by subscribing to MSN Hotmail Plus�our new enhancement to MSN Hotmail Extra Storage. As an MSN Hotmail Plus member, you are exempt from the inactivity policy.

[Powaqqatsi]

What ? Always been like that.

[storer]

Originally posted by Powaqqatsi:
What ? Always been like that.

thats what I thought!

[cszar2001]

After receiving eleventy billion Spam mails I gave up using hotmail.

[storer]

Originally posted by cszar2001:
eleventy billion

lol

[ManOfSteal]

Gmail.

[Randman]

spymac.



























Ok, just kidding.

[realitybath]

Originally posted by cszar2001:
After receiving eleventy billion Spam mails I gave up using hotmail.

you are a cold and heartless man...
think of all the billions of spams that are now homeless just becuase you can't maintain a hotmail account! You should be ashamed

[OB1]

Happened to me, twice. I didn't lose my contacts though.

[badidea]

Originally posted by OB1:
Happened to me, twice. I didn't lose my contacts though.

Happened to me twice, too ... and that's how I got rid of my eleventy billion spam mails!

[Daracle]

I had one of these too....Made me laugh

If I don't use it at least once a month, what makes them think I want to pay for it?

[cszar2001]

Originally posted by realitybath:
you are a cold and heartless man...
think of all the billions of spams that are now homeless just becuase you can't maintain a hotmail account! You should be ashamed

On the contrary: I let them roam free in the wilderness of the internet. That`s an act of kindness if you ask me.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by Powaqqatsi:
What ? Always been like that.

I think they only started the 30 day thing a year ago. It used to be longer.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
I think they only started the 30 day thing a year ago. It used to be longer.

Even then, sealobo deserves a timeline...

-t

[bradoesch]

Signing into MSN Messenger doesn't count as a logging into Hotmail. I have an account just for Messenger which still works even when the mail bit has been deactivated.

[ajprice]

Hotmail is getting bumped up to a 250Mb mailbox limit with 10Mb message limit as from "Autumn". How soon this will really be, I'm not sure, but they have to keep up with Lycos and GMail I suppose, and bigger file sizes now that broadband internet is more popular.

[Angus_D]

I never really understood why anyone ever used Hotmail.

[bradoesch]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
I never really understood why anyone ever used Hotmail.

I suppose if you don't know any better or you want to use MSN Messenger.

[thePurpleGiant]

Originally posted by bradoesch:
I suppose if you don't know any better or you want to use MSN Messenger.

Thing is, you can use MSN with any email account - just that most people don't know this. I use MSN and just use my normal (non hotmail) email address.

[storer]

Originally posted by thePurpleGiant:
Thing is, you can use MSN with any email account - just that most people don't know this. I use MSN and just use my normal (non hotmail) email address.

yeh, I just use my gmail

[olePigeon]

It's so they can delete all the mail boxes created by users when their original mail box gets overloaded with SPAM. That way you can toggle between two email accounts when either one gets spammed out.

[bradoesch]

Originally posted by thePurpleGiant:
Thing is, you can use MSN with any email account - just that most people don't know this. I use MSN and just use my normal (non hotmail) email address.

I didn't know this for the longest time, until I saw my cousin using his own email address.

[PacHead]

30 days ? Hotmail is useless if not checked every couple of days. That's about how long it takes for an account to be filled with spam, garbage and junk, thus preventing any other mail to get through, because of the microscopic storage limit.

Anybody who loses their Hotmail account, should think of it as a good thing.

[Xeo]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
I think they only started the 30 day thing a year ago. It used to be longer.

90, wasn't it?

[thePurpleGiant]

Originally posted by Xeo:
90, wasn't it?

From memory, yes.

[nredman]

i think used hotmail back in 98-99...i stopped using it cause it sucked donkey dick

[dtriska]

Originally posted by nredman:
i think used hotmail back in 98-99...i stopped using it cause it sucked donkey dick

Same here.

[Dex13]

it's been thirty for a while now, not just a year ....

[olePigeon]

Originally posted by thePurpleGiant:
Thing is, you can use MSN with any email account - just that most people don't know this. I use MSN and just use my normal (non hotmail) email address.

I don't use MSN and save myself $12.

[thePurpleGiant]

Originally posted by olePigeon:
I don't use MSN and save myself $12.

$12?? I never spent $12?!

[olePigeon]

Originally posted by thePurpleGiant:
$12?? I never spent $12?!

But you're spending $22 for dialup.