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- k0na_an0k
no no, not politically speaking...
yesterday i found out i had a myspace account i created long before myspace was myspace. i had only one friend.... tom. i killed that account then thought of how i go about killing off old email accounts.
i have an old hotmail account i haven't used in about 3 years. it's still active. how do you go about getting rid of an old email account?
anyone know? anyone done this?
thanks in advance.
- van_rijn0
thought hotmail deleted inactive accounts after a year or so
- Nairn0
How on earth did you manage to avoid getting kicked by Hotmail after 3 years? I 'forgot' to check my mail for about 3 weeks last year and the fuckers closed my account down - I'd been with them since '98.
God, I hate Microsoft.
- k0na_an0k0
i thought so too but it's still there. i just sent it an email and i didn't get back an error of it not being there
- chossy0
you ignore them and don't use them.
- emptyempty0
hotmail is bad, very bad!
- conroy0
"I had an old myspace account" is like saying "I have a girlfried, but she lives in Canada."
- rafalski0
Make sure you kill Tom as well
- k0na_an0k0
i'm not sure nairn but it seems it's still there.
maybe cause it gets so much damn spam email?
i stopped using it when i started to get about 100 spam messages a day. i'm sure it's multiplied exponentially now.
maybe i just need to forget about it and it will eventually go away.
Hmm.
- tkmeister0
i want to switch over from hotmail to gmail. how do you guys handle email switch? you just send out emails to all your friends and done?
- k0na_an0k0
"I had an old myspace account" is like saying "I have a girlfried, but she lives in Canada."
conroy
(Nov 8 06, 07:19)haha. i suppose but i remember when myspace made it's way to the pbs or pvn and we talked about it here.
- k0na_an0k0
i want to switch over from hotmail to gmail. how do you guys handle email switch? you just send out emails to all your friends and done?
tkmeister
(Nov 8 06, 07:23)when i switched from hotmail to yahoo every monday for 3 weeks i sent out a message from hotmail to everyone in my address book that i was switching over to yahoo.
the 4th week i switched over to yahoo and only logged back into hotmail for the next two months making sure no one was still using that account.
that was pretty much it.
it was pretty easy.
- Nairn0
tkm - i hope you're not missing a trick here.. a change of email account is the perfect way to drop extraneous acquaintances!
- tkmeister0
cool, i think i am gonna switch to a gmail. i already have an account but never used it much. i just had it for some testing purpose. maybe there's a way to set up an automatic response.
- k0na_an0k0
no friggin way.
i have special powers.
i just sent another email to the account and it's gone! hahaha! that's feckin crazy!
so i guess you guys were right. leave it sit long enough and they close it out. kewl.
so now you know too. :)
- mpfree0
Wondered why you never responded to the 'Re: How do I Kill a Hobo?' E-mail I sent you.
- tkmeister0
Nairn, that's a good idea. i get all the stupid emails from stupid headhunters who just don't leave me alone. the best way to drop them forever.
- mpfree0
don't forget the and for eBay with the E-mail content.
I fuck a fool.
- emptyempty0
i want to switch over from hotmail to gmail. how do you guys handle email switch? you just send out emails to all your friends and done?
tkmeister
(Nov 8 06, 07:23)I havent used hotmail for years but... you could use 'forward'. Emails to your hotmail will be automatic sent to your gmail one blah blah...
if you get what i mean...
- tkmeister0
yeah, i get shall do that too. i am done with hotmail now.