His other excuse was that he had forgotten his hotmail password. So I opened up hotmail on his computer, entered the password that I remember us setting up last April, and there are about 2500 emails.
I set up some rules to separate the known senders (2450 were from FaceBook) and we marked everything as read. He starts with a clean slate.
Annoyed? You bet! I only gave him a 2nd hand computer and a new battery so that he could use it for his business (largely email). Maybe I should have found a more worthy recipient.
I will be giving a spare Acer power cord to Hapy Habou - I bought it for myself but it is 12" too short to use at breakfast at Sheherazade. It least they have made the effort to use their computer, and have bought an internet wifi connection.