Hotmail is indeed web-based, but it is affiliated with MSN. Thus MSN's 
policies apply to hotmail. If MSN has a problem, hotmail likely will, too.

There is no guarantee that Yahoo or Gmail addresses will never have a 
problem - it just hasn't happened so far.

By the way, there are people with MSN addresses whose provider is 
actually Verizon. I haven't heard of any problems with their emails - 
have you, Norm? Or maybe you have no way to know?

June

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June Tveekrem
Columbia, Maryland
tweekiebird|AT|southernspreadwing.com
http://SouthernSpreadwing.com



Matthew Von Hendy wrote:
> My question is really quite simple.  Hotmail is a web-based e-mail 
> that does not rely on an Internet service provider (ISP)  (i.e. you 
> can access it from anywhere with a computer and Internet connection).  
> How are we sure that it isn't going to happen with say a Yahoo account 
> or any other web-based e-mail service, and not experience the same 
> kind of problems again in the near future?