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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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