(Hot male.)
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Dear morons,
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Over the weekend my hotmail account was terminated without warning
due to the fact that I committed the heinous sin of using the word "bastard"
in my login name. I've got some things to say about it.
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First of all, the fact that it took your delightfully efficient system
two weeks to figure out that some evil-doer was using your service to pollute
the internet with slightly dirty words is a few levels above ridiculous.
The system didn't have any problems with it when I was signing up, and
I was even denied my first severl bastard-containing choices because these
addresses already exist. Here's a wacky idea: SET UP YOUR SYSTEM SO IT
SCREENS LOGINS FOR DIRTY WORDS DURING SIGN-UP!!! This can't be an incredibly
difficult thing to do, since even the bozos at aol manage to immediately
filter words like "whore" our of its member profiles. That way, people
like me wouldn't spend two weeks converting from their POP mail to hotmail
only to have their service cut off without warning or explanation. You
guys are run by Microsoft, for God's sake. Show some innovation.
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I wouldn't be as upset about this if there were actually a clause in
your bible-sized Terms of Service about proper login names. I double-checked
after I learned that my account was terminated (okay, okay, it was the
first time I read it, but nobody ever reads that crap the first time around),
and I didn't see anything prohibiting potty-mouthed language in login names.
Perhaps you should establish terms of service before enforcing them. That's
how most intelligently-run companies do it. I bet that's what Macintosh
does. And Netscape, too.
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I sincerely hope that the good people of MSN and hotmail manage to
pull their swollen heads out of their asses and start running a competent
business. I the meantime, my fellow bastards and I will be sticking with
POP mail.
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Your enemy, now and forever,
Matt Holohan
King of the Bastards