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MSN Forces Outlook POP
Phoenix-D writes: "Qwest.net, my Phoenix-area DSL provider and ISP, recently decided to hand over their ISP buisness to MSN. No huge deal, right? Well, check out this blurb: 'Due to the Microsoft anti-spam initiative, customers are restricted to use their mail services. Therefore, POP3 service is only available when using MSN Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, or Microsoft Outlook Express.'" Awesome. Microsoft's Anti-Spam initiative forces POP users to use the primary sender of mail worms.
They probably check to see if you're sending out 300 copies of the latest email worm.
Cute acronym
(Or should that be: Oxymoron)
-Eldurbarn
After MS took over it litterally filled the account with junk mail.
Then every other day you get a message saying that your account is too large...
You're using her as bait, Master!
Well, they just said "best-of-breed" - they didn't say just what that breed was. (halfbred? inbred?)
-- "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." -Joseph Stalin
As part of our ongoing effort to reduce junk emails to our loyal customers, the Microsoft abuse management team has created a new "real-time black hole" domain block list. This list is used to check all mail routed through our servers (increased in volume thanks to our new deal with Qwest) for known spammer domain names.
You may be interested to note that leading this list are the following notorious domains. These sites should be avoided for the protection of our revenue stream... errr... customers:
Additionally, our upcoming Microsoft World Browser will include protection against websites hosted at these domains. Thank you for your cooperation as we work to improve your user experience on the web.
Sincerely,
Microsoft Support