Car insurers accused of discriminating against people with Hotmail accounts

Re:Car insurers accused of discriminating against people wit... by zdfjkhiuj on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:00PM (#16219977)

Someone with a HotMail account has managed to keep a consistent address for about twenty years. That is a good thing. The idea that they should ditch HotMail for the functionally equivalent GMail just because GMail is popular is, of course, idiotic.

But this is an insurance company, so it is plausible that they crunched the numbers and found a real effect.

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Re:Car insurers accused of discriminating against people wit... by Alex3917 on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @11:18PM (#16220282)

I still log into my old Hotmail account every few months just to keep it from getting deleted. It’s a complete piece of shit, it’s not even usable let alone comparable in any way to gmail.

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Re:Car insurers accused of discriminating against people wit... by executesorder66 on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @07:32AM (#16222194)

If it's a complete piece of shit, why do you want to prevent it from being deleted?

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Re:Car insurers accused of discriminating against people wit... by 0xcde4c3db on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @09:53AM (#16223093)

In my case, I've maintained old email addresses when:

1) A website ties accounts to email addresses and doesn't allow changing them, and

2) the email provider recycles expired addresses, i.e. a new user could sign up for my old address.

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Re:Car insurers accused of discriminating against people wit... by Alex3917 on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @10:50AM (#16223577)

For historical reasons, in case there were ever some account on some rarely used service where I forgot to change the email, and in case I ever need to build something on the MS Graph API.

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Re:Car insurers accused of discriminating against people wit... by tobltobs on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @07:44AM (#16222250)

maybe he has a forward to a usable email account.

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Re:Car insurers accused of discriminating against people wit... by skinnymuch on Thursday January 25, 2018 @08:47AM (#16230692)

Are you using outlook.com? How is it a complete piece of shit? Microsoft improved it quite a bit. It’s different than Gmail, but far from awful.

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Re:Car insurers accused of discriminating against people wit... by Markoff on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @08:01AM (#16222326)

I find outlook.com aka hotmail vastly superior to cluttered gmail, are your sure you even tried it?

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Re:Car insurers accused of discriminating against people wit... by JauntyHatAngle on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @12:05AM (#16220470)

>The idea that they should ditch HotMail for the functionally equivalent GMail just because GMail is popular is, of course, idiotic.

I think the "functionally equivalent" part is quite arguable, at least it was in the past when many techies made the switch from hotmail to gmail.

People switched because the features and interface were far superior.

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Re:Car insurers accused of discriminating against people wit... by zdfjkhiuj on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @12:12PM (#16224301)

>People switched because the features and interface were far superior.

No one should use the web interface, let alone "techies." Use a real email client and everything behaves identically.

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Re:Car insurers accused of discriminating against people wit... by JauntyHatAngle on Sunday January 28, 2018 @06:13PM (#16254178)

Not really, portability was not easy to accomplish back then when you were constantly shifting between work stations and different setups.

Even to this day, I don't know of an easy way to switch between fresh devices all the time and use a "real" email client.

I don't see the problem with someone preferring gmail - personally the +suffix tagging was what I still use to this day.

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Re:Car insurers accused of discriminating against people wit... by sniglom on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @08:36AM (#16222490)

Well, you could also see it like, somebody not interested in switching to better alternatives, even after 20 years.

Say, driving a 20 year old car even though there are safer alternatives available.

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Re:Car insurers accused of discriminating against people wit... by acct1771 on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @11:17PM (#16220273)

Or...too lacking in ambition to find a proper service and forward the previous address?

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Re:Car insurers accused of discriminating against people wit... by icebraining on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @07:31AM (#16222189)

Lacking in ambition sounds good from an actuarial point of view.

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