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Forfucksake: Hotmail Bastards

 
 
The Natural Way
09:31 / 14.01.03
So, does anyone know if hotmail have started charging? Just triied to reactivate my old account - I succeeded - and was taken to a thrilling "What Hotmail can offer YOU!" page where I had no choice but to click on a link that led to billing info fields. 'Fuck this..', I thought and attempted to open a new account and guess what? Same fucking bullshit.

I'm very pissed off about this. Why's it so hard to contact the fuckers? What's going on?
 
 
Bear
09:48 / 14.01.03
Yeah but you can ignore it and just have the normal spam-filled hotmail if you like. They'll start charging you to send e-mails soon, like 5p a mail or something.
 
 
The Natural Way
09:50 / 14.01.03
But I don't actually know how to. After I've signed in, the only option it seems to give is to go to the billing page and if I attempt to do anything else I'm told to bloody well fill in the fields with my fucking credit card address and everything and...ouurgh....I'm worn out.

I'll go over there now and have another crack.
 
 
Fist Fun
09:54 / 14.01.03
Why use hotmail? Free web based email accounts are everywhere - yahoo or whatever.
 
 
The Natural Way
09:56 / 14.01.03
Yes. And I may change. But I'd really like to know why I can't get into my account! Yaargh.
 
 
Bear
09:56 / 14.01.03
Yeah but you get a better selection of teex horse sex offers with Hotmail, yahoo is more Britney based
 
 
The Natural Way
10:20 / 14.01.03
Fnar. But seriously, I think I like horse-sex a whole lot.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
10:23 / 14.01.03
The option for the free account is still there, chap. It's just in teeny tiny text underneath all the stuff about paying for accounts. Hang on...
 
 
The Natural Way
10:33 / 14.01.03
Found it! Thanks Randy. Those absolute fuckers! God.....
 
 
Spatula Clarke
10:34 / 14.01.03
Balls. Can't remember any of my old account passwords. Signing up for a new one eventually gets you to a screen with the following (at the bottom of the screen):

Types of MSN Hotmail Accounts
MSN Hotmail offers two types of email accounts:


..then descriptions of the two accounts. In the second description, the one for 2MB accounts, there's a little 'click here' link, virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the text. That's the one you want. If, that is, you see this screen at all when you reactivate an old account.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
10:34 / 14.01.03
Oops. Oh well.
 
 
illmatic
09:31 / 20.01.03
Can't access my hotmail and haven't been able to for a couple of days. Anyone know why? I don't really care - I mostly use it as a dump for mailing list stuff I don't want coming to my inbox but I've got a couple of good things saved I can't access. Any ideas?
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
14:21 / 20.01.03
Mack- do you log in to Hotmail each time you want to see your mail, or have you got it at home where you go to Hotmail.com and it's supposed to automatically go in to your inbox? If it's the latter I found once that my cookies got screwed up for no readily apparent reason, deleted them and started afresh and it was fine. If it's the former it's probably because God sees the evil in your soul.
 
 
illmatic
14:24 / 20.01.03
It's the former. Guesss this is divine pusnishment - I knew I shouldn't have drowned those puppies.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:47 / 20.01.03
...in jizz, Illmatic. It sounds a lot more innocent if you leave out the "in jizz" part. You can hardly blame Hotmail, really.
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
15:02 / 20.01.03
You could of course just swap to Postmaster. Free, more than twice Hotmail's free storage space, and doesn't attract spam like a rotting cadaver.
 
  
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