Microsoft knows you're making throwaway e-mail accounts, and wants to make that process easier.
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
wyweb
12:50 pm on Feb 4, 2011 (gmt 0)
Now I wish I had a hotmail addy.
Not.
weeks
5:50 pm on Feb 4, 2011 (gmt 0)
OK, where is it? This feature will be handy.
I've had a hotmail account for catalog order for over 10 years. Several years ago the inbox was a great wasteland of junk mail but I'm getting newsletters there that are actually useful and interesting. I check it at least once a day.
J_RaD
2:39 pm on Feb 5, 2011 (gmt 0)
nice one!
wyweb
12:01 am on Feb 6, 2011 (gmt 0)
I actually had a filter in place in 2006 banning any email from a hotmail account.
Any. All.
So much trash was coming from their server. It outweighed legit orders 10 to 1 and I was perfectly willing to sacrifice that 1 I lost.
I relaxed the filter in 2007 but am still amazed at why anyone would use this service. It reeks.
