Ever tried closing a Hotmail account?

[T'boo Ted]

my gf closer her facebook last year with much pain and cursing

 

[one-eyed_jim]

I signed up to Hotmail in 1999 when it wasn't Microsoft, I don't think I'd ever change it now even though I got very annoyed when they stopped the pop3 service last year, I used to use it with outlook express and not get all the adverts.

You can still download emails from Hotmail to Outlook Express via pop3.live.com

http://email.about.com/od/outlookexpres ... xpress.htm

I use Hotmail as my public (forum) address, and read mail via OE. The spam filter is sometimes a little over-zealous, but problems are rare enough for a free service.

Like you, I've had the same Hotmail address since 1999.