hotmail ban?

[bursty]

does anyone know why new registering users cant have a hotmail.com email address? i registered about a month ago to my hotmail address....but my friend tried a couple days ago and it said hotmail has been banned....just wonderin if there was a reason, other then that it has a relation to Winblows :D

[HexMonkey]

From the Mac Rumors Forum FAQ:

Why does it say my email address is banned?

We occassionally ban entire domains (such as hotmail or yahoo) due to abusive registrations. Try a different email address

You can see the FAQ at:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37092

[Kingsnapped]

It's quite unfortunite, but understandable. I couldn't register from my real email address (@yahoo.com), so I had to go through my ancient @bored.com address that I only use for getting spam. Quite the shame for those of us going through sbc/yahoo ISPs.

[Nermal]

Yahoo is an ISP? :eek:

[rainman::|:|]

Originally posted by Nermal
Yahoo is an ISP? :eek:

when you go far enough, you'll find that *everything* is an ISP, someplace. i'm pretty sure my pet hedgehog is an ISP in bejing.

i remember banning entire ISPs back in the days of IRC. my, how that enraged the masses. they'd go to a friend's house just to flame us :rolleyes:

paul