It's an urban myth in the making: This guy's got this friend, right, who works in a human resources department. His organisation is looking to hire someone who, among other things, is an experienced internet user. Fifty people apply. Thirty of the applications come from job-seekers with Hotmail email addresses. Those 30 applications are deleted on arrival.

The logic being, of course, that no one adequately internet-savvy would ever choose Hotmail to host their email account.

Note Hotmail's generous new 250MB storage capacity limit for users, above. Compared to Gmail's 2.5GB of storage and Yahoo's limitless capacity, announced today, it's not hard to see why Hotmail is starting to look like the amateur's choice.

(Link via BoingBoing.)