So go ahead if you want to try to register. If you get stopped or get a snarky message, you hit the software. If this happens, e-mail me as cj@cherryh.com and I’ll get you through manually. This particular software can get too aggressive and has a lot of checks and blanks that I can poke—or not—depending on what works, and if I’m not careful I can lock myself out. So let’s see how this goes. I’m strongly suspecting hotmail has been made into a spam portal for a flood of bad folk. This particular software is—well, we’ll see.