On Thursday 12 July 2001 08:34 am, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 July 2001 15:12, you wrote:
> > Why would anybody want to go this route with todays concerns for privacy
> > and spam?
>
> I think that he is referring to the MSN Messenger portion of IMICI. To use
> the windows version of MSN Messenger, you must use your hotmail email
> address (M$ has this thing called a "passport" which is used for MSN, and a
> slew of other M$-related things). Without entering your hotmail email
> address, you aren't able to log into M$'s servers to use MSN.
I don't know... I went to the site looked around. Then downloaded it and
installed it. Can't use it without an account with http://www.imici.com
You know they run all your contacts and conversations thru their servers,
that's how their service works. They have to pay for it somehow - by selling
email addresses and who knows what else.
-s
