Originally Posted by
David Murray1 lol how old are you? Hotmail was launched more than 10 years ago. Are you saying people with @hotmail.com addresses should be 'forced' to change? Forcing people to change is like fixing something that isn't broken (far from it). Grow up!
How old is the OS on your personal computer? Still supported?
As for age, let's just say that unless you were around during Elvis's heyday then you are younger than I.
In the digital communications world, technologies change rapidly and interoperability requires all the components and participants to stay reasonably up to date or else communications fail. One cannot expect the technology ecosystem to stand still for 20 years because a few Luddites cannot handle occasional change.
Sometimes methods can be developed to allow people using older systems to communicate with newer ones. Sometimes there are no such methods. Sometimes they entail large compromises and loss of functionality.
You can't buy leaded gas for that 1960's car of yours in this country any more either. Or replacement parts, most likely.
Still have a Genie account? Compuserve? The Source? MCImail? How about that old BBS account? Fidonet? Netcom? Panix? Hopefully you get my point.