Re: Hotmail suspended

From: Derek N (anomynous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:14:29 +0100

Thank you Jonathan (I did say I understood that you were a willing
volunteer), that is the answer I was looking for. We use MSN and Windows
Messengers on a daily basis so we can allow the hotmail accounts to be
terminated.
Derek N

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@jonathankay.com> wrote in message
news:eEy2wfrGFHA.1172@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> 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
>>
>>
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