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O.P. Huh?  give away an old account!!!
I was wondering is there a place where I can post old emails of mine so people can use them
03-19-2007 04:21 PM
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RE: give away an old account!!!
just abandon the account, don't login for.... i think it was for 3 months and the account will be deleted and free again for other people.
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03-19-2007 04:24 PM
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O.P. RE: give away an old account!!!
I did abandon it but I want somebody to take it
03-19-2007 04:28 PM
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Er....... Someone will register it eventually after a while....
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03-19-2007 04:33 PM
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RE: give away an old account!!!
well then post it here, and i'm sure it will get hijacked. Just don't leave any personal info still attached to the account. delete all mail in all of your folders, empty your contact lists, change your secret question and password, update all of the other online services that you have signed up with that address, and then maybe people won't be able to take any personal info from you.


Highly recommend just abandoning the account and letting it expire.
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03-19-2007 04:34 PM
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Er....... Someone will register it eventually after a while....

Not possible, once an account name has been taken, it can never be used by anyone else again :P.
03-19-2007 08:28 PM
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RE: give away an old account!!!
We are talking about a Hotmail email? Because this is not clear in any post...

If it is an hotmail email:

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Er....... Someone will register it eventually after a while....

Not possible, once an account name has been taken, it can never be used by anyone else again :P.
yes it will, after it gets expired/removed...

see "CookieRevised's reply to Question (hotmail.co.uk account inactive)"...

Also, I really would not recommend putting your old emails in public. As said before, simply don't use it anymore and let it expire; that is the most safest way.

Stuff will still be stored under your account when it is active. Stuff which you probably didn't think of clearing (thinking about the reverse contact list, roaming info, server cached stuff, etc, etc). So do NOT place your account in public for others to use. Not only is this not safe for you, it might also be an invasion of privacy towards your previous contacts.

Let it expire instead or request Microsoft to remove it.

This post was edited on 03-20-2007 at 03:34 AM by CookieRevised.
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03-20-2007 03:27 AM
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RE: give away an old account!!!
He was referring to someone new signing up with his account, which is impossible. An example being if I have example@hotmail.com on my contact list, who becomes inactive, and his account removed. Someone else cannot sign up with example@hotmail.com, because then I could talk to example@hotmail.com, thinking it was something else. It also means any subscriptions to online services will still be received in the inbox, as well as other aspects that require an email address. You could inherit someone's identity, thus making it impossible to sign up taking over an old account.
03-20-2007 06:38 PM
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He was referring to someone new signing up with his account
Where? he was talking about emails and email accounts, I don't see any mention of messenger account, windows live id or .NET passport.
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03-21-2007 11:17 AM
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I was referring to Voldemort's quote :).
03-21-2007 05:40 PM
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