Activation email blocked by hotmail....

I had a Hotmail address for a short period of time and I wasn't impressed. I started getting spam almost immediately after signing up! Then I got a few pieces of what seemed to be legit e-mail addressed to an individual with the same last name and first initial (which was my hotmail address prefix), but obviously not for me. My guess is that some previous hotmail account holder had used the same prefix, and without consideration for the consequences Hotmail allowed a new user (me) to use the same prefix. I complained, but that only generated the boilerplate "We're sorry you're getting spam, here's how to control it" response.

I also had several e-mails that I knew had been sent fail to make it to my inbox. Then I never was able to get Thunderbird configured to send and receive via Hotmail. I gave up on it, I switched to Google Mail, and I am much happier.