Dear Microsoft,
Over the years, you have repeatedly made unwanted advances, and I have repeatedly turned you down. Regardless, you keep at it, and it really needs to be addressed. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about:
One of my email clients noted that email they are sending to one of your email clients is being blocked because of some violation of your terms of service. Of course there’s no indication of the violation, but your email points out that you MIGHT be blocking my server’s IP address and that I am welcome to visit https://postmaster.live.com/snds/index.aspx to check. When I visit the page, I click the link offering “just a few clicks later you’ll see a wealth of historical data on those IPs’ mail volume, spam-related and other statistics”. I typed in the IP I wanted to check and it asks me to log in with my Windows Live ID. I don’t have one and I don’t want one.
This isn’t the first time you’ve tried to force yourself on me, either. Over the years, I’ve tried to sign up for MSN a handful of times and each time, it has been a horribly designed, cumbersome process. It’s not the fact that I have to have a Live ID that bothers me. It’s the face that you keep trying to force me to use hotmail.
Hotmail? Really?
You already cram the widely hated Internet Explorer down everyone’s throats. Isn’t that enough? Do I really need to sign up for Hotmail just to check the history of my IP in your spam rules? Then I’ll never use the account and in six months or a year I’ll have to get a new one because I never wanted the old one in the first place, so I promptly forgot the information.
Just let me use my own email address. I like it, I’ll remember it, and it doesn’t waste your resources. See. Isn’t that easy? Oh. Wait. I forgot I was talking to Microsoft, here. Nevermind. I’m sure you’ll just keep doing it your way until everyone just gives in.
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