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    What does one do if he only has a hotmail e-mail?

    A friend of mine (again, from class, just like Taurus and Yoav) has expressed interest in registering Apolyton, after I told him about it.

    However, his ISP doesn't provide him with a POP3 mailbox, and his only e-mail is a hotmail one.

    So what can he do to register?
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    I've registered with a Hotmail address.

    No problems at all.
    If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.

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    • #3
      why not get a propper E mail
      The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits

      Hydey the no-limits man.

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      • #4
        I also have a Hotmail account.

        /me waits for someone to do the DL dance

        Ah, forget waiting.

        /me accuses himself of being a DL

        Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

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        • #5
          Tell him to get a <a href="http://www.fastmail.fm">Fastmail</a> account.
          It is much better than hotmail, and faster too. Less advertisements, etc.

          Or not. Some people are masochists.
          I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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          • #6
            In the "old" days... free email services like Hotmail and others weren't allowed to be used for creating log ons.

            However... that changed a ways back. Tell him to just sign up with his Hotmail account.
            Keep on Civin'
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            • #7
              Re: What does one do if he only has a hotmail e-mail?

              Originally posted by Sirotnikov
              A friend of mine (again, from class, just like Taurus and Yoav) has expressed interest in registering Apolyton, after I told him about it.

              However, his ISP doesn't provide him with a POP3 mailbox, and his only e-mail is a hotmail one.

              So what can he do to register?
              I will say first that it is unusual to hear of an ISP not providing its clients with a POP3 mail account today, but in any event as others have already stated there is no problem in their registering with their Hotmail account.

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              • #8
                Yeah... I remember trying to join in teh summer of '99, but I couldn't because I only had a Hotmail account.... As a result I missed out on the golden era of teh OTF...

                Ah well.. at least I've wasted a good chunk of my life here in the past two years.
                *grumbles about work*

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                • #9
                  I only registered because I wanted to give comments in the Civ3 polls (remember the days? ), in mid June 2000. But since I only had a yahoo account I asked (politely) to a guy called MarkG (wich I soon found out that he wasn't just the webmaster, but a co-owner himself) if I could join Apolyton with a yahoo account.
                  A day or two later he mailed me saying I had authorization to login.
                  I think I was one of the firsts using free mail accounts around here. Lots of kudos for Mark for "breaking" the rules for me.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Ming
                    In the "old" days... free email services like Hotmail and others weren't allowed to be used for creating log ons.

                    However... that changed a ways back. Tell him to just sign up with his Hotmail account.
                    When was this changed? When I registered in January, i used a non-ISP email but then in March I got a PM from Mark telling me to change it
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                    • #11
                      Re: What does one do if he only has a hotmail e-mail?

                      Originally posted by Sirotnikov
                      A friend of mine (again, from class, just like Taurus and Yoav) has expressed interest in registering Apolyton, after I told him about it.

                      However, his ISP doesn't provide him with a POP3 mailbox, and his only e-mail is a hotmail one.

                      So what can he do to register?


                      The power and influence of the ZOG is rising on daily basis.
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                      • #12
                        Re: Re: What does one do if he only has a hotmail e-mail?

                        Originally posted by DanQ


                        I will say first that it is unusual to hear of an ISP not providing its clients with a POP3 mail account today, but in any event as others have already stated there is no problem in their registering with their Hotmail account.

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                        Dan; Apolyton CS
                        Outside the US and Canada, the world is a vast waste land puchuated by the occasional oasis of activity where the internet is concerned.
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                        • #13
                          Hotmail is tasty!


                          ...that was spur of the moment typing, and I apologize. I do use Hotmail, however.
                          Talent Optional

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                          • #14
                            Oh, ok.

                            He told me he tried to join before, but his addy wasn't accepted.

                            THough perhaps it was "long time ago".

                            I'll let him know.

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                            • #15
                              that changed a ways back
                              Wow, I thought as of at least 6 months ago the only things that were accepted were Lycos and ISPs

                              Oh and by the way- happy 18th birthday Sirotnikov
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