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Will Somebody Call The Linky Police!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Will somebody call the spam police?
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Wow, and he couldn't even get the clickcety right. I'm sure his e-Commerce business is super efficient.
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Yes, and with broken links like that, his SEO solutions would work wonders. 
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FYI Your contact page has issues when JavaScript disabled.
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Dang 5 mins. and they are gone, not even a puff of smoke?
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Mike Hankey wrote: Dang 5 mins. and they are gone, not even a puff of smoke?
 
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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There is a hamster back there blowing smoke from the barrel of his six shooter wearing chaps and spurs saying you line em up n I'll shoot em
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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has anybody managed to actually do this???
i got an email from microsoft about their new terms of use and decided i wanted to cancel my stuff with them since i never use it anyways but i have spent the last 40mins trying and getting absolutely nowhere - apparently i have an xbox live account that i cannot cancel even though i have never owned or actually physically touched an xbox, either live or dead
does anybody know what animal(s) i need to sacrifice to cancel my account with the big M ?
i am going there in a week or 2 so maybe i'll just go ex-postal on them and see if that helps
SO frustrating
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
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You need to present the twitching bloodless body of a fanboy to the Alter of Altair.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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I had an account with them and they would send an email each month telling me I needed to log on at least once a month but when going to there site there was no way to log on. Never could understand that and after about a year they quite and I no longer get them.
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i do the "try to cancel hotmail account" thing
which sends me to "cancel windows live account" thing
which sends me to "cancel billing services" thing
which sends me to "cancel xbox live" thing
which sends me to a page saying to "cancel windows live account" thing
and so on...
it gets kinda old pretty soon
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
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Yeah I find they do that a lot, that's why I no longer do the MSDN circle jerk thing you can go round and round for hours and not see anything important.
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So they've made it work exactly the same as their help system?
Look, one of the main things a company should present to its customers is consistency, so stop complaining.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The only real way to do this, is to change you identity, passport, etc.
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Tell us Norm, how many accounts have you closed with them? Do you even know who you are anymore?
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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I've read in another post that you've got into an infinite loop trying to get it done so, you are not agree with the terms of use... Don't use that anymore and forget about it.
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I got about 4 of these emails today about new terms and conditions of use with MS.
They were spam and I deleted them....
Hope you haven't been sucked in...
Regards grralph
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Just violate their terms of use. That'll cancel your account.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Most accounts, you can't cancel. Some accounts, go inactive, if you haven't used them in 60 days, Hotmail for example.
Microsoft sucks, and they get worse every day. I'm not just saying that because everyone else says it...they really do.
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Don't be ridiculous!
Your great-grandchildren might need it!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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oh my god you're right!
how could i have been so short-sighted??
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
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Yeah, I'd keep those threats unspecific.
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Get an XBox 360 (or borrow one), log on to your account, go into an online game that supports the microphone, and just scream obscenities until your account is banned...wait never mind, if they did that there wouldn't be any gamers left on Xbox live...
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It's entirely possible they can't remove you. Or, more accurately, don't know how.
I was told this first-hand by someone with direct access to the database used by one team back in the aughts. They had not built an account management feature into their web app. If a member record needed to be edited or removed, someone had to do it by hand in the back-end database. So, I guess they knew how, but it was made clear that nobody intended to actually mess with the database.
If someone made a mistake or wanted to change contact info? Create a new account.
As far as I know they still have the same database backing the same program. Whether they ever updated the front-end tools... well, clearly not effectively.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Why is it so important that you cancel it? Storing child porn on SkyDrive or something? :P Just let it lapse and forget about it - best case, they push out a ToS change and since you never agreed to it, it's inactivated, worse case, Microsoft gets bought out by NigeriSpamCo when the value of the dollar collapses! :P
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