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Hotmail Launches Accounts You Can Throw Away

Posted by timothy on from the at-last-a-feature-that-leads-gmail dept.

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from CNET: "Today, Hotmail is getting a new feature aimed at 'e-mail enthusiasts,' which lets anyone create multiple e-mail accounts that can be read, replied to, and managed from their everyday e-mail inbox. These additional e-mail addresses can be had in the same manner as signing up for new accounts, but they require no extra log-ins or upkeep. ... The idea is to give users a safe way to provide third parties with an e-mail address, without giving up the address they've provided to family and friends, which, if compromised, can end the usefulness of that particular account. Each user will be able to create up to five aliases, any of which can be deleted and replaced with another at any time. Over time, Microsoft will increase that limit to 15 aliases per account, making it so that the true heavy users won't need to juggle between two or more Hotmail accounts."

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  1. I guess... by msauve · · Score: 4, Funny

    this is the first time I've seen a Microsoft focused article after the /. redesign. Bill as Borg doesn't seem right - he's not even in charge any more. Where's Ballmer with a chair (and not sitting on it)?

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    "National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
  2. You thought it was hard to name an account before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now we're going to be emailing grandmacatherineandgrandpajohn1320924delta@hotmail.com

  3. Re:Cool idea by Magic5Ball · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then would you say that you are nonplussed about this feature?

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    There are 1.1... kinds of people.
  4. That's nothing. by dmomo · · Score: 3, Funny

    I threw away my hotmail account 10 years ago.