# Hotmail's down; or, Why I haven't answered your letter

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmails-down-or-why-i-havent-answered-your-letter/44948>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 11, 2000, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmails-down-or-why-i-havent-answered-your-letter/44948 "2000-12-11T00:42:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![fierra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmails-down-or-why-i-havent-answered-your-letter/44948/21 "2000-12-13T14:09:19Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \*  
> \*\*Thank you, one and all. I’m going to look into Yahoo, definitely. AFTER I retrieve my 74 unread messages from Hotmail. I’m really getting twitchy here, folks. \*\*

Don’t wait Lynn - you can set up yahoo to copy on your new incoming messages from your other accounts (with the option of leaving them still on that server), so you can keep that number down to 74 if you set it up now.

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**Author:** ![drewcosten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@drewcosten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewcosten)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmails-down-or-why-i-havent-answered-your-letter/44948/22 "2000-12-13T16:21:18Z")

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Why aren’t you all using [http://www.britney-spears.com](http://www.britney-spears.com) for your free @britney-spears.com webmail address? 🙂

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