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IP: Microsoft e-mail service crippled
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:14:55 -0500
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said its free e-mail service had been partially crippled because it forgot to pay a $35 bill. Some users of Microsoft's Hotmail service were unable to access their accounts over the Christmas weekend. The glitch was caused after Microsoft failed to pay a $35 fee to registration company Network Solutions for rights to the Internet domain name passport.com, which verifies user names and passwords for Hotmail and other services, Gill said. Hotmail has more than 52 million users around the world, but Microsoft said it was unclear how many had experienced problems. In an ironic twist, the missed billing was discovered and paid by Michael Chaney, an Antioch, Tenn.-based programmer who works with the Linux operating system, an upstart competitor to Microsoft's Windows platform. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562914545-8ef ****************** A Happy Holiday and a safe New Year from Dave and GG Farber ******************
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