Life hacker article on why using a rarely used webmail email is a bad idea

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wkleem
wkleem
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I came across this article that I thought I would post here.

lifehacker.com/5325867/never-use-hotmail-inactive-webmail-as-your-secondary-email-account

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  • prime
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    I can see how this is bad. I use 2 main email addresses and ech of those have aliases with them. I'll use an alias for forums, one for crap, one for important stuff, and so on.

  • AGAlumB
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    That's a great point! But oddly enough I was just talking to a colleague the other day about how we were both surprised that Microsoft hadn't closed our Hotmail accounts yet. :lol:

  • Ben
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    I just found a couple of Hotmail / Live accounts in my vault while doing some spring cleaning. I was very surprised when I was still able to login to them.

    I found a lot of other accounts I was surprised still existed as well. Many I wish offered the ability to delete the account, but this seems to be an unfortunately uncommon feature.

    Ben

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