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MS bought Hotmail and is now the ISP

OrgName: MS Hotmail
OrgID:  MSHOT
Address:  One Microsoft Way
City:  Redmond
State/Province:  WA
Postal Code:  98062
Country:  USA

Mike O'Brien
Fairfield, Adams County, PA

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:06 PM, June Tveekrem <
> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> 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?
>>
>