Got a Hotmail account? Read in.

**goldxx** · May 17th, 2002, 05:13 PM

If you login to your hotmail account and to the right of the " Address Book" tab is "Options" click on Options and then go to the first choice which should be "Personal Profile" Once in "Personal Profile" scroll all the way to the bottom and you will see that Microcrap has reset everyones mailboxes to "Share my e-mail address" and "Share my other registration information." Uncheck them and click "UPDATE"

**vass0922** · May 17th, 2002, 05:41 PM

WTF
Un[censored]believable!!
And people wonder why we slam Microsoft

First Yahoo does it, now Microsux.. WHO NEXT?!!?
Screw the customer, we want money

The way of the new world

Thanks goldxx, I never would of seen it

**GroundZero3** · May 17th, 2002, 05:48 PM

interesting. thanks

**MrFreeze** · May 17th, 2002, 05:50 PM

wow.... tnx... hope it was just in time

MrFreeze

**Philip1952** · May 17th, 2002, 05:59 PM

Thanks

**Tekk** · May 17th, 2002, 06:03 PM

appreciate the update!! Darn .NET junk

**edwelly** · May 17th, 2002, 06:22 PM

hhhmmm, thank you very much. Thant would explain the recent rise in SPAM
---edwelly

**Kuasimodem** · May 17th, 2002, 06:58 PM

I was wondering who gave out my email addy

Now to just get rid of the spam... time to create a couple new filters in OE6.

**dragonb** · May 17th, 2002, 07:00 PM

What makes me the most mad is no email saying that their privacy policy was changing.
By the way, go to theregus.com there's an article there about it.
dragonb

**krohnjw** · May 17th, 2002, 07:16 PM

I posted some news on that last night, so it hsould be up in 4-5 days...just in time to be out of date.
It is hard to believe that they would do that, although not out of MS realm apparantly. :-/

**skuz** · May 17th, 2002, 11:53 PM

The question is : what is the goal of actually having the choice for these options ?

An email account should be private. What's this sharing for ?

**cadetstimp** · May 18th, 2002, 12:02 AM

Problem is once your address is in the spam lists they stay there unless delivery bounces back.... Hmmmm time to create a new account I guess.

<edit> not to mention that almost every SMTP server transmitting spam seems to be infected with the Klex virus </edit>

**the jester** · May 18th, 2002, 12:13 AM

I created a new account recently and during set up I specifically made sure those boxes were unchecked because I kept getting the britney sexchat and tadger enlargening treatment spam.

those check-boxes are placebo - I still get the spam even with a very unlikely e-mail address

I consider myself to be pretty good about staying legit in life; I don't expect everyone on the planet to play by the same rules, but from an organization that keeps bleating about how it's getting shafted by illegal activity such as piracy... well I find that pretty 6-21-3-11-9-14-7 hypocritical

Go ahead, crack my code

**cracked** · May 18th, 2002, 12:16 AM

man, that really pisses me off. grrr.....
well ill just change it and hope that they havent sent it to too many people...
they always say, better to be pissed off than be pissed on...

drew

**gjwilson** · May 18th, 2002, 04:59 AM

I think they did it so your account would fill up quickly and you`d be forced to pay for the extra storage. Gary

**Thud** · May 18th, 2002, 07:45 AM

And to think I just posted in a thread saying how much I like WinXP.

While this does piss me off, it also makes me realize there's no such thing as a "free lunch".

**tobu** · May 18th, 2002, 07:49 AM

All i can say is its too late for most aussies, Our privacy was distroyed by a program called PROMIS. We got it dirt cheap from the americain gov and it was used to store all our personal info.

Too bad it was spywaqre and returned all the info back to its home land

**draboo** · May 18th, 2002, 06:27 PM

i just went and unchecked everything and now i have to type in password everytime i click on the service in the task bar,which i didnt have to do before.

then i went and changed everything back,and i still have to type password every time. msn is screwy

**photos911** · May 18th, 2002, 06:56 PM

Originally posted by vass0922
WTF
Un[censored]believable!!
And people wonder why we slam Microsoft
First Yahoo does it, now Microsux.. WHO NEXT?!!?
Screw the customer, we want money
The way of the new world

Thanks goldxx, I never would of seen it

Good thing not all companys are like that. But most big ones are.
Our company will never be that greedy.