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It is now possible to send a free text message to AT&T phones using the hotmail account. Let us see how to achieve this.

Steps on How to Send a Free Text Message to AT&T Using Hotmail

1. First of all, login to your Hotmail account using your Hotmail ID and password. If you do not have a hotmail account, you can create one for free within 10 minutes through the easy registration process.
2. Once you login, select the option “compose mail”.
3. As you get the compose window, type in the text that you want to send to the AT&T subscriber.
4. The facility is available only to the subscribers of the AT&T subscribers. Once you type in the text in the compose mail, you need to enter the telephone number of the person to which you need to send the message.
5. In the Send to Box, enter the phone number of the AT&T subscriber followed by the domain given below:
   @txt.att.net

   In such case, if the phone number of the AT&T subscriber is 345-456-7645, then you will type in 3454567645@txt.att.net in the Send To Box. You can also use the CC and BCC boxes if you want to send the message to multiple people who have the AT&T number.

6. Please note that the service is available only to the subscribers of the AT&T subscribers. Once you have entered all the numbers, click on the send button. You message will reach the only the telephones that support text messaging.

Please keep in mind that the facility is available through hotmail to AT&T phones that support text messaging. In order to send the messages properly, please keep the number of words to minimum. It is better to keep the number of words to 255 so that the message is delivered properly.

Once the bots get the idea of your hotmail ID, the advertising agencies and spammers start exploiting it. Almost every day you waste substantial amount of your time by deleting mails that are not important but are only ads from different companies. There is a way to stop this. Let us see how to block the ads in Hotmail

Instructions For Stopping All The Ads In Hotmail

1. Go to the settings in your hotmail account.
2. Select the filters and rules.
3. Click new rule and then select FROM TEMPLATE
4. In the same dialog box, select apply rule after the mail arrives and click next.
5. In the first step of the wizard that opens, select the options Delete the mail as it arrives and click next
6. In the second step, scroll through the available options and select the option “containing specific words in the senders address or body”
7. In the same dialog box, click on the link that appears and type in Promotions, advertisements, ads, lottery, buy, and all other common words that appear in a typical ad. You can also come back later using edit rule to add more words that appear in the ads that still manage to get into the inbox. Copy the special words and add it to the same link. For each word you type in, you need to click on the ADD button so that it is added to the rule. The words are displayed in a larger box just below the text box where you type the words.
8. Click ok and then click next.
9. You may also specify exclusions if you want. For example, if you do not want an email that contains some special words in the subject to be deleted, you can select the option in this step and add those words.
10. Click next and then Apply.

Now that the rules are set, the mails containing ads will be automatically deleted as soon as they arrive to your hotmail account.