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Melissa pointed it out to me, as I don't use hotmail, but if you try and edit your preferences with Mozilla (perhaps the most standards-compliant web browser out there), it gives you this cute message: Browser not supported. While at the same time, with lynx you get the following:

                                              MSN Hotmail - Browser Limitations

   Browser Limitations
     _________________________________________________________________

Your Current Web Browsing Software Will Limit Your Ability to Use Hotmail

   As you know, Hotmail is web-based e-mail. If you are seeing this page,
   we have detected that you are using a web browser that Hotmail does
   not support. Hotmail supports the following web browsers:
     * Microsoft Internet Explorer - version 4.0 or higher. 
       We recommend that you upgrade your web browsing software, and
       invite you to download Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.0.    
     * Netscape Navigator - version 4.08 or higher.             

   If you continue to use your current browser software, we cannot
   guarantee that Hotmail will work properly.

                        Continue using Hotmail
                                              
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Someone's playing favorites here, while trying not to get blamed for being unaccessible. I bet the only reason that mozilla's blocked out is because it's got so much control of what you can see and do. Or perhaps because it's open source? <sarcasm>"If anyone can view the source code, including hackers, how can it give me the security I need to prevent hackers from stealing my information?"</sarcasm>