I see that Hotmail is not recommended for sign-up and why. I want to sign up two student groups ( post 19 ) in September to share bookmarks etc. Inevitably their e-mail addresses are mainly Hotmail or other web-based addresses. And we will be setting up in a computer room so web based addresses are necessary to complete setting up and moving onto the sharing.
Why not Hotmail then? Is there any solution you can offer.. what am to do?
An early response would be helpful as if I have to go to something else I need time to set it all up!
Hi trician: Hotmail often puts our verification email into spam/junk folder, so we don't recommend hotmail. However, other mainstream webmails, such as yahoo mail, gmail, AOL mail work fine. You can still use hotmail to register, but we are not sure whether you can receive the verification emails.
I can think of one reason why you might want to avoid that. According to Google, a number of users probably lost their gmail accounts to hackers this way:
1. They used hotmail or live.com addresses to register their Google accounts.
2. They failed to log in for a year.
3. The hotmail accounts lapsed.
.... and here is where the story gets interesting ...
4. Hotmail recycled their ids, allowing the hackers to take on their victim's identities, as far as the Google system was concerned. Using the contact address, they requested the "lost" passwords for "their" gmail accounts (read: their victims' gmail accounts), which they then hijacked.
In principle, one could do the same to a Diigo account registered that way, or anything else registered through hotmail. The motivation for stealing the Gmail accounts seems to have been the desire to use them for spamming, and while a Diigo account can't be used for mass mailing, you might notice that this site does have a large population of spammers.
So, you might want to be careful, even at the risk of being overly careful.
started by trician1 on 21 Aug 07
I want to sign up two student groups ( post 19 ) in September to share bookmarks etc. Inevitably their e-mail addresses are mainly Hotmail or other web-based addresses. And we will be setting up in a computer room so web based addresses are necessary to complete setting up and moving onto the sharing.
Why not Hotmail then? Is there any solution you can offer.. what am to do?
An early response would be helpful as if I have to go to something else I need time to set it all up!
Tricia
Hotmail often puts our verification email into spam/junk folder, so we don't recommend hotmail. However, other mainstream webmails, such as yahoo mail, gmail, AOL mail work fine. You can still use hotmail to register, but we are not sure whether you can receive the verification emails.
I am having a different issue: since I installed Diigo, yesterday, my Hotmail won't work on Firefox! The page comes up blank... What do I do?
Thanks!
Angela
> a different issue
Please post different issues to different topics. Thanks.
"Why not Hotmail then?"
I can think of one reason why you might want to avoid that. According to Google, a number of users probably lost their gmail accounts to hackers this way:
1. They used hotmail or live.com addresses to register their Google accounts.
2. They failed to log in for a year.
3. The hotmail accounts lapsed.
.... and here is where the story gets interesting ...
4. Hotmail recycled their ids, allowing the hackers to take on their victim's identities, as far as the Google system was concerned. Using the contact address, they requested the "lost" passwords for "their" gmail accounts (read: their victims' gmail accounts), which they then hijacked.
In principle, one could do the same to a Diigo account registered that way, or anything else registered through hotmail. The motivation for stealing the Gmail accounts seems to have been the desire to use them for spamming, and while a Diigo account can't be used for mass mailing, you might notice that this site does have a large population of spammers.
So, you might want to be careful, even at the risk of being overly careful.