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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the some-things-only-exist-as-a-warning-to-others dept.

Ars Technica has an article over the background behind Hotmail and how it aquired the stigma it has since its purchase back in 1997 for $450 million. Over the years it served as a showcase for several types of failure, including the inability of Windows servers to work in production or to scale.


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  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Tuesday January 02 2018, @08:40PM (1 child)

    by Nuke (3162) on Tuesday January 02 2018, @08:40PM (#616878)

    You don't need 90's Hotmail for throwaway and unlimited email addresses. I use a conventional email client and an email forwarder which offers me an unlimited number of addresses, and I also have a hosting provider ditto. I never give out the same email address to more than one entity; downside is that I have to keep a spreadsheet to remember which address I have given to which entity. I can also look at the statistics and see that a pond gardening company I bought something from 6 years ago continues to send me about 10 spams a week, and they are only one offender.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 02 2018, @10:09PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday January 02 2018, @10:09PM (#616922) Journal

    Multiple throwaway accounts is arguably better from a security standpoint since you can use a different username/password as needed. Or entirely different services so that if one gets completely hacked, not everything is rekt.

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