Heh... I used to use Hotmail myself. I came across this pleasantry quite a few times, and somehow, spam used to find its way to me very regularly. I eventually started using Yahoo and have been relatively satisfied. I can usually log in when I need to. Just some food for thought. 🙂
In my opinion, Hotmail went down the toilet when Microsoft bought it. Plenty of better free emails out there. Like Adam, I use mail.yahoo.com. It's free, always available, lets you send up to 10MB of attachments, and gives you a gig of storage.