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Hi guys,

I just found something strange and for some people it might be cool so I wanted to share.

get msn page is still up:

http://get.msn.com/

What I thought was especially cool is the old passport.net website still up and allows you to register @passport.com emails.

general account passport.net page

register @passport.com account

Once you register for @passport.com account you can login to brand new outlook.com with your passport.com email :)

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You can login to outlook with your @passport.com account but you shouldn't be able to recieve email via it, at least you couldn't when it was hotmail.

indeed you can't. sending works, though.

You've created credentials

You can now sign in using <[snip]>@passport.com. Remember that you can't send or receive mail using this email address.

That's strange. Why would it let to login to outlook.com/hotmail if there is no real email service on the account.

I just tested my newly created @passport.com account and I CAN send emails from it, but have not received any emails from my other account yet. Though when account was just created I did get a welcome email.

Oh well. It was still cool to find the ancient pages that MS needs to remove.

The screenshot doesn't really show why wouldn't it work. MX record is ok, but different that on the hotmail/outlook.com accounts.

If you mean Ping is not working, it's normal for all Microsoft sites. They block it network wide.

ping www.microsoft.com

PING lb1.www.ms.akadns.net (64.4.11.42): 56 data bytes

Request timeout for icmp_seq 0

ping download.microsoft.com

PING a767.ms.akamai.net (89.149.151.33): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 89.149.151.33: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=33.399 ms

ping windowsupdate.microsoft.com

PING www.update.microsoft.com.nsatc.net (65.55.185.26): 56 data bytes

Request timeout for icmp_seq 0

ping www.msn.com

PING us.co1.cb3.glbdns.microsoft.com (131.253.34.194): 56 data bytes

Request timeout for icmp_seq 0

Kinda weird :p

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