Cancelling your Passport.NET Account?

An anonymous reader asks: "i read on the Passport.NET site that 'Microsoft has announced plans to discontinue the .NET Passport express purchase service' AKA .NET Passport wallet. This may well be old news but the reason i stumbled on it is I want to discontinue my Passport account. There is a link on the account maintainace page that allows just this - however it bounced me to my Hotmail account which I had to close first. However my Passport account is still open and when I try to close it I just get bounced to the Hotmail reactivation page... (the reason i am so hyper about this is anger at being automatically opted-ini to two seperate information sharing schemes without being asked - no wonder there was so much spam! Have any of you had a similar problem closing your account? Has anyone managed? If so how?"

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Yes

[jsse]

Have any of you had a similar problem closing your account?

It happens to others companies like domainnic.com. They used my email address as account name and all account related information(change password, etc.) will be sent thru this email.

Years later the email account originally used to register the domain is invalidated and I request to change the email address. Their reply is negative because they can't change the account name thus can't change my primary admin email address, and they refused to make change to their system so I'll have to make the change by other means.

You can't expect too much for free services such like hotmail, but sometime even when you paid you may not recieve certain level of convenience you expect. Not matter it's a paid or free service, make sure it meets your expected level of customer services before you join. Just MHO.

the biggest problem

[inteller]

Is that Hotmail now sends spam to you themselves disguised as an "informative" message. They may put ne stupid little hotmail tip in it, then the rest is "supporting" commercials. Its a load of shit. This piggybacking should be banned.