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hissingnoise
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They're Hotmail Support, but support is the thing they don't do.
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hiperion42
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Well i think a lot depends on what one expects from a free service. 
.....ejuu....................................................................Ffg..............................g.............
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hissingnoise
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I guess . . .
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Arthur Dent
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My memory has always been quite unreilable, so I always keep a phone-notebook that contains every single password for the hundreds of sites and forums
I use, including Paypal, my bank account and my government service access. This is the central book I rely on, and it's in a place where i'm sure i'll
remember where it is! LOL
As for email, i'm also quite weary of the Hotmails and Gmails of this world. I only use my Hotmail account for obligatory email address fields in
questionable websites, and to test connections when I'm at a remote location. I have an address from my internet web provider as well as an address on
my own web server from my www.progmontreal.com website.
For important email correspondence, I often BCC my other address so I'm sure that if one account pewters out, I can count on the other. I don't trust
technology even though I make a living with it! LOL
Best of luck with your account and I hope it will be finally be resolved soon. My only recommendtion is redundancy, redundancy, redundancy...  Get yourself a crapload of email addresses from several sources.
Robert
Robert
--- Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa ---
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hissingnoise
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But the thing is, there was nothing I could fault Hotmail for until now!
Other times, forgotten passwords were so quickly resolved I was actually impressed.
Major negative changes seem to have occurred recently.
And be assured, all the sound advice I've gotten here will be acted on . . .
I'll never forget another PW---my wife will see to that!
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Rosco Bodine
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Maybe with regards to the freemail ......
Bill Gates can probably afford the generosity ....ya think .....
and what else is the soothing ointment for patch overrun fatigue....
supplemental to unconfigurable toolbar stacking and screen real estate encroachment by so many bells and whistles made a users cross to bear?
slings and arrows ......oh the pain !
Gimme back a classic interface in a skinny toolbar with dropdown menus so
windows stops hogging my window .........pleeeeeeze 
Now that would be real progress
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Sedit
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I didn't read any of this thread but the OP but I must ask, are you serious? I have hacked thru Hotmail accounts for the hell of it. They are so
insecure its not even funny. You have to supply a supliment email address, get your PW sent to there man.
Knowledge is useless to useless people...
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. The fall of Rome, the fall of Germany — the
fall of the ruling country, the people who think they can do whatever they want without anybody else's consent. I've seen this story
before."~Maynard James Keenan
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hissingnoise
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| Quote: | | You have to supply a supliment email address, get your PW sent to there man. |
But when your alternate address just happens an old forgotten account you barely remember the name of, let alone the PW,that's when you've got a
problem.
I eventually remembered it and it contains the number 13 . . .
I've entered a zillion would-be PWs.
I'm just one fucking word away . . .
Hacking skills would be handy; I'd hack into MSN and fuck them up, bigtime!
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hissingnoise
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(groan!) I left Orwell out of my opening diatribe . . .
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vulture
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxXlDyTD7wo&feature=relat...
Maybe this can provide some relief.
One shouldn't accept or resort to the mutilation of science to appease the mentally impaired.
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IrC
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That was so damn funny I watched it twice and then emailed it to a few friends.
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" Richard Feynman
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hissingnoise
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Whew! The drama is over at last; I've finally, after nearly a month of tearing my hair out, regained access to my account!
It was a hellish few weeks but at least it's over.
Thanks everyone for the empathy, kind words and helpful suggestions.
I guess now, I'd better start on my 348 unreads.
Lots'a junk too . . .
A valuable lesson has been learned, however; I must never again find myself in a position where I have to request assistance from Hotmail Support as
it appears to be staffed in the main, by malignant, knuckle-dragging neanderthals.
I will stay with Hotmail, but only through necessity.
I certainly will not be buying any more of their products!
And my advice to anyone setting up an email account still stands; Hotmail really is the Ebola virus of E-mail and should, at all costs, be
avoided for that reason!
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food
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hn, you may want to try this utility
http://keepass.info/
I'm finding it quite handy, especially for those username/password combinations that are infrequently used
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hissingnoise
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Thanks food, I will give it a try; I have all my passwords in a notebook, but backup is never a bad thing --- good find!
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