This really sucks. They deactivated my hotmail acct and deleted every damn mail i had. I am royally pissed and screwed. sign every month? WTF?

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Unfortunately, that's always been the case for as long as I can remember...

It's 2 months (I think) for Yahoo and a whopping 9 for Gmail.

BTW, both delete your email (Gmail deletes your username too)

Was it inactive? They do have a policy to dump accounts that are inactive, which is in the info you read when signing up.

Google does the same thing, though I think the period of inactivity is longer before they act.

Tony

I think they should keep something like the past 10 or 25 emails.

->I think they should keep something like the past 10 or 25 emails.

For how long? I understand a large number of Hotmail accounts go inactive right away.

Perhaps 30 days is a little short, but I certainly understand MS's postion. It people are worried about saving emails, forward them to a POP3 account, another email account or print them out.

I don't save anything to the web that I don't have a backup of somewhere else if it is important to me.

Tony

But Hotmail only allows POP3 access to MS Products.

I meant every service should keep the latest 10-25 emails and empty the rest.