Me too! I've been denied access several times in the last week and had to try to decipher that cruddy "if you can't read this" voice into Braille so I can get it into the edit field- only to be knocked ut again a few hours later. I wrote to HotMail tech support and have had no reply, though they say they will reply within 24 hours. Lots of luck to us all! Cher >>> one2three4five6@xxxxxxxxxxx 2/21/2005 11:09:34 PM >>> back in September 2004, bill gates decided he ainp rich enough so this is the start of locking out people who don't pay the $19.95 to hotmail, a year so, you can continue to use, outlook express but, and it is a big butt!!! if you sign up for the hotmail plus you will be able to use outlook express but,, you won't be able to use, hotmail from the internet any more I, am still waiting for a reply from msn about it, and waiting for a reply from freedom scientific i have been fighting for two weeks now with 3 different hotmail accounts i signed them up with hotmail plus 60 bucks because the same thing was happening you can read and delete from outlook express but if you try and send or reply to a email you get locked out with the following 1all your folders disappear 2you get a message from hotmail and it's the only, email in the inbox will paste at the bottom of this email 3i tried to use the, if you can't see this picture, link the female, has marbles in her mouth I am being very kind of what I really want to call her but after many attempts finally getting signed in, then try and send or reply to a email and getting, immediately locked out, again and again and again so, I paid the hotmail plus fee, which I have cancelled already after sighning into hotmail from the internet the only thing I hear is frame frame insert f7 says no links by turning the virtual cursor off insert z and tabbing until I am on a link can insert f7 get me to the inbox so, you have to decide outlook express or, hotmail, outlook express is so, so, much easier to use, as a jaws user, than the hotmail web page especially for this, list which some days can generate 50 to 100 messages a day it is going to be, a major dilemma for all of us, that use hotmail and jaws here is the email that hotmail sends you Dear DPI Student To help protect our users from automatically generated junk e-mail (or spam), MSN Hotmail periodically asks for identity verification. Please go to http://www.hotmail.msn.com this is a bullshit address!!!!! and follow the instructions. It takes only a few minutes and you can then return to using your Hotmail account. Thank you for helping us to help reduce your junk e-mail. Sincerely, MSN Hotmail Staff Please do not reply to this e-mail as this is an unmonitored alias. Please visit hotmail.com General Details Internet headers for this message: From: "Hotmail Staff" <staff@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <dpipractice@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Please visit hotmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.132 Message Source... OK Cancel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gezim Rexha" <Gezim.Rexha@xxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 10:59 AM Subject: Problem: Outlook or Hotmail? Hi all, I use Outlook Express with Hotmail. Recently I am constantly geting a message sent by Hotmail Staff, which asks me to visit a certain link, as it states, to protect from spam and junk mail. All other messages in my Inbox, old and new disappear, and whenever I try to klick on the given link, I get the message that the page could not be found. When I try to log on my Hotmail account directly, not from Outlook, I get a "match the picture" message, which, asks me to type certain characters and then I can get access to the account. However, when I go back to use it with Outlook, especially when I try to send a message, the mentioned message from Hotmaill Staff is repeated. This is the case with all my three E-mail accounts that I use with Outlook. Sorry for the long message, but I really hope someone will be able to help me as I am desperate. 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