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I think it be a good thing if they cleaned out those illegally gained adresses. It's not that hard to clean out accounts made after a certain date for domains not yet released and it will prevent problems later on.

Reasons/explanation why i think they should:
1. To show that MS won't be played with...if ppl get to keep those accounts imo it would be rewarding bad behaviour..
2. At some point people will get the possibility (hotmail might even dissapear totally) to transfer over their hotmail account to the new live.com account (yes transfer not having to readd all your contacts in a new id etc etc)....those who had f.e. blabla@hotmail.com will have oldest right to gain blabla@live.com and might (should imo) even automaticly get it....imagine the problems that would arrise if that addy was taken illegally already.
3. If there was no hotmail account with the name you wanted you can always register those live.com ones when they are officially released..just keep watchin the news.

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Originally posted by HSV

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Originally posted by LG
. @live.com
accounts are not legitimately available anywhere except in the Netherlands, where we released Windows Live Mail (without the Beta)...

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Wrong, we can't get live.com accounts here either..only live.nl accounts were released. @live.com accounts are not released anywhere yet.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I already posted my thoughts about that in that other thread where that hacking code was published (thread which now is T&T'ed and pruned).

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i didn't look sorry Cookie but hey im like DZ Lazy

I know this a noob Q, but will my @hotmail.com automatically be changed to live.com or get deleted? I need to keep it the same.

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Originally posted by MenthiX
ould just merge hotmail.com over to live.com. So when you have johndoe@hotmail.com you automatically get johndoe@live.com and still kep the hotmail one as an alias so you don't have to tell everybody you changed address.

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Yeah. Beats the hell out of having 2 addresses
Automatic transmission from hotmail.com to live.com is the best thing that can happen.

Well i got one and if its deleted ill go to my old hotmail one which is in my sig..
i doubt if its deleted TBH because millions of people registered one..so they will not delete it one by one will they

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Originally posted by quacky
Well i got one and if its deleted ill go to my old hotmail one which is in my sig..
i doubt if its deleted TBH because millions of people registered one..so they will not delete it one by one will they

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search: @live
results: 3,000,000
select all > delete

Erm,
It's not hard to go to the database "@live" (which i am assuming is the name of it" and click "Drop Table". Or even "select all delete.

Well if its that easy then....why dont ms do it?
i might go to my hotmail address again...

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Originally posted by quacky
Well if its that easy then....why dont ms do it?

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because if they do, they could potentially get alot of angry people on their doorstep. I supose they are in a bit of a 'conundrum' over what to do and they will go through each outcome and see which is best.

well that's what i'd do anyway

Because, they are debating whether they should do it or not.
Don't forget we had a right (in a way) If it is there to be done. Why can't we?