Comments on: Hotmail Closure (Part 1)

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:44:11 +0000

hey, I get these messages all the time from my mates, usually the younger ones who freak out about it…I just recently got the “theres only 578 email addresses left” one, and quite personally, I never bother forwarding them in the first place, but always click the link that comes with them just to make sure I’m right …and surprisingly I am. I found your blog… ;)pity everyone doesnt figure it out for themselves tho.

thanks for this.

By: Sam Davyson

Sam Davyson — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:01:41 +0000

No they are not closing Hotmail! Please read the article!

By: Kaite

Kaite — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:00:44 +0000

Cause that is just stuipd if you are. I use that for everything

By: Kaite

Kaite — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:59:58 +0000

Are you really closing Hotmail?

By: zack

zack — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:51:55 +0000

aswell many of these chain letters state that there are only 578 names left. Consider this:

Your email address can be anywhere from 1-64 characters in length.
in your email address, you can have anything from a-z,
0-9, preiods(.), hyphens(-) and underscores (_) thats a total of 38 possibilities for EVERY 64 characters in your email address.
that means that there are 64^38 (2,760,698,530,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) possible email addresses.

now for the funny part:

the worlds population is only 6,602,244,175 (as of july, 2007)
that would mean in order for there to be ONLY 578 names left…. every single person on this planet would need to have:
4,181,454,786,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 email addresses….

By: Sam Davyson » Hotmail Closure (Part 2)

Sam Davyson » Hotmail Closure (Part 2) — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:19:31 +0000

[...] This post is the second in a two part series. The first gave examples of types of emails that can be received about Hotmail closing. It is important that you note all of these are completely bogus. You can see them here. [...]