Hi mollymooks,

When Microsoft began making upgrades to Hotmail late last August, I went through several weeks when I could not use that service at all. So I opened a Gmail account. Gmail works fine without any of the hassle of Microsoft Hotmail/Outlook. Our good friend, music153, is interesting me in other e-mail accounts as well. 

However right now I am grieving the loss of my Hotmail. I have suffered the lost of professional services that I had subscribed to on Hotmail. I have to begin from scratch. My closing out my Hotmail account is my protest against a service that was beginning to savor too much of Big Brother which seemed at the end was trying to bring me in line with what overbearing Big Brother wants. Seems to be too much what is going on in my country with its surveillance of its law abiding and tax paying citizenry.

Thom.