Re: Has Hotmail spam filter gone dead.?
You can carry on using ur hotmail email address with MSN & not use it for email purpose. It will deactivate ur email account for emailing purpose but wont delete the actual account since u will be using it for MSN (logging in to the network). If at any later time u decide to use the same account again, just login to hotmail & activate it (u wont get spam for few days after activation until hotmail will realise that ur email is active & then they will sell it again). I had my hotmail in 1995 & I am still using the same account for MSN (not for emails anymore).
BTW, hotmail may not be everyone's first email account. I had an email account few years earlier than hotmail was introduced.