I like to explore how email gets from one place to another and sometimes make sure that it's really from who I think it's from, so I like to dig into the arcane Received-By: and other headers that are atop an email message I get on MSN Live/Hotmail. Problem is, that's not so easy. How do I view the "full headers" of an e-mail message in MSN Hotmail?...

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How do I change my password for Microsoft Hotmail / Windows Live Hotmail? My Dad told me it's a smart thing to do every few months but I have had the same password for years......

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I've been running in Hotmail for a long time, but just recently saw a friend log in and was amazed to see that he has a three-pane view, with a preview of the message on the same page as the list of incoming messages! I want! How do I switch?...

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As far as I know, there's a big problem with duplicate content in the search engines, so I am paranoid about my dynamically generated content and want to use either a "robots.txt" file or a "robots.txt meta exclusion" to ensure that search engines don't see my content again and again. How do I do that?...

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I know that Yahoo and Google's Gmail are probably more trendy, but I'm interested in getting an MSN Hotmail account. How do I do that and what should I consider when I'm signing up?...

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