An embuggerance of Live(Hot)mail
A message from a friend in New Zealand via Facebook bemoaning the loss of his Hotmail address book and email address, prompted me to look at my own Hotmail. This isn't something I do very often as I only use it if a website asks for an email address in order to use any part of it. Apart from this and MSN the address is just a throw away pot of spam.
Anyway my friend said he had been forced to change his address to something@windowslive.com.
I have queried this as I believe it should actually be @live.com. Anyway back to the issue at hand, I logged into my hotmail account only to find it's all changed, there are no emails in my inbox, nothing in the spam box, and nothing in the address book (I don't think there ever was). In fact there isn't anything to suggest -----@hotmail.com ever existed. It's a new account.
Thanks a bunch Microsoft. Despite it being a throw away address there were a few emails in there I did want to keep.
My fault I suppose for not accessing the web interface for Gawd knows how long. A lesson there for anyone still using webmail as their primary email system. Unless you can download mail to your local machine for safe keeping it ain't safe. Anyway with nothing better to do I decided to look deeper and discovered I could set up another new account and still get my hotmail user name with the spanking new shiny @live.co.uk, so I did.
I am now @hotmail.com and @live.co.uk.
But whereas in days gone by you could email me @hotmail.com or @hotmail.co.uk, with the new shiny Live system only @live.co.uk works.
Maybe someone else has datasmog@live.com, if they do they got a couple of odd test emails from a dead TV personality with a gmail address.
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Anyway my friend said he had been forced to change his address to something@windowslive.com.
I have queried this as I believe it should actually be @live.com. Anyway back to the issue at hand, I logged into my hotmail account only to find it's all changed, there are no emails in my inbox, nothing in the spam box, and nothing in the address book (I don't think there ever was). In fact there isn't anything to suggest -----@hotmail.com ever existed. It's a new account.
Thanks a bunch Microsoft. Despite it being a throw away address there were a few emails in there I did want to keep.
My fault I suppose for not accessing the web interface for Gawd knows how long. A lesson there for anyone still using webmail as their primary email system. Unless you can download mail to your local machine for safe keeping it ain't safe. Anyway with nothing better to do I decided to look deeper and discovered I could set up another new account and still get my hotmail user name with the spanking new shiny @live.co.uk, so I did.
I am now @hotmail.com and @live.co.uk.
But whereas in days gone by you could email me @hotmail.com or @hotmail.co.uk, with the new shiny Live system only @live.co.uk works.
Maybe someone else has datasmog@live.com, if they do they got a couple of odd test emails from a dead TV personality with a gmail address.
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copywriting, editing, job applications.