and no, hotmail, you can't blame *this* on the Bossa Nova. (see music)
Dear Microsoft:
You fail. FAIL. And not just for the abomination that was Windows Millennium. And Vista. And...well, anyway, you fail because many years ago I had a hotmail account that I used to sign up for various web-things, like Friendster and some bulletin boards. I never used hotmail much, cause it was a pain, and you used to inactivate it and delete all my mail if I didn't log in for a month, but that's not the problem. The problem is that I just tried to recover passwords to some of those old bulletin boards, so I needed to log in to hotmail. I tried to, but apparently not only did you inactivate the account, you totally deleted it. You deleted it and nuked it from orbit so completely that I was just able (once I realized what was going on) to re-open a hotmail account with that very same address. And then recover all of my passwords from those old bulletin boards. And that was okay, because I happen to be the same person that had that hotmail account originally. The key word here is "happen to." Can you say security issue? I can. And I'm glad I never used anything besides gmail or my JHU account for anything substantial. What if it were something like my amazon.com account, or my credit card account, rather than just bulletin boards? Even LJ and AOL (where arguably, it's not a huge deal or a security flaw if someone eventually re-uses a name) are much more conservative about retiring/recycling user names...
You fail. FAIL. And not just for the abomination that was Windows Millennium. And Vista. And...well, anyway, you fail because many years ago I had a hotmail account that I used to sign up for various web-things, like Friendster and some bulletin boards. I never used hotmail much, cause it was a pain, and you used to inactivate it and delete all my mail if I didn't log in for a month, but that's not the problem. The problem is that I just tried to recover passwords to some of those old bulletin boards, so I needed to log in to hotmail. I tried to, but apparently not only did you inactivate the account, you totally deleted it. You deleted it and nuked it from orbit so completely that I was just able (once I realized what was going on) to re-open a hotmail account with that very same address. And then recover all of my passwords from those old bulletin boards. And that was okay, because I happen to be the same person that had that hotmail account originally. The key word here is "happen to." Can you say security issue? I can. And I'm glad I never used anything besides gmail or my JHU account for anything substantial. What if it were something like my amazon.com account, or my credit card account, rather than just bulletin boards? Even LJ and AOL (where arguably, it's not a huge deal or a security flaw if someone eventually re-uses a name) are much more conservative about retiring/recycling user names...