Re: Hotmail suspended

From: Jonathan Kay [MVP] (msnewsreplies_at_jonathankay.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:29:36 -0800

Hi,

Indeed, I had some other commitments yesterday offline :)

Your Passport won't be immediately cancelled when your Hotmail account expires (and
continuing to log into Messenger even after your Hotmail Inbox has been deleted -will- keep
the Passport active).

Microsoft really only deletes a Passport after it's been inactive (not-signed in) for a year
or so (I'm not exactly sure of the timeframe right now).
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"Victoria Bolton" <morkai at dreamwolf dot net> wrote in message
news:OiwQBhqGFHA.1392@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> It's not something MS hides and they quite actively allow you to do it
> throughout any setup so I can see no reason Jonathan would not reply apart
> from being busy .
>
> I'm not sure how you figured that the passport account won't be cancelled. I
> have no idea as how that would work. I would suggest you create new passport
> accounts with your normal email addresses. That's what we did when we
> switched from hotmail accounts to our own email addresses. I just went in
> and created a new passport account for every user.
>
> I did this from the http://messenger.msn.com/download/ page
>
> Click the 'register your own email address' button and you can make a
> passport account from there using any email addy you like.
>
> This then works with Windows messenger and Msn Messenger. We run XP and 2000
> in our network so this was the easiest method for us.
>
> Victoria
>
> "Derek N" <anomynous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:u0yPdIlGFHA.2752@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Victoria thank you for your reply, obviously Jonathan didn't want to reply
>> (I understand he is a willing volunteer).
>> From your reply I gather that the "Microsoft.MSN Passport" will not be
>> cancelled when a Hotmail account is cancelled. I cannot find this
>> information on any of the helplines.
>> Derek N
>
>