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Microsoft Going After Hotmail Spammers
Mirkon writes "Quoth The Register: "Microsoft has targeted spammers with a lawsuit aimed at bulk mailers who harvest email addresses of Hotmail subscribers in order to bombard them with junk." Details are apparently sketchy at this point, but it's nice to see America's favorite monopoly putting its power to good use." The original news.com.com story is slightly more informative.
*cringe* it is almost too hard to say but...
Yay for Microsoft!
*ugh* that was hard. And it still hurt to say.
NoKey.
I'm sorry, but my kharma just ran over your dogma.
I have always said that Once Microsoft Rules the World things will go much smoother. If anyone has a problem with anything (SPAM, Computer, Entertainment center, fridge, toilet ...) there will only be one support line!
I Can't wait!! The Possibilities are endless.
yours truly,
Gill Bates
...it's time to allow women to vote!
Seriously, while it's good they're finally doing it, why weren't they doing it years ago?
WWJD? JWRTFM!!!
That might be just a new bussiness model. Invest in bandwidth to receive spam and then get your money back tenfold by sueing the spammers and winning the case...
Microsoft : "You'll have to stop using Hotmail adresse or we'll sue you!" Spammer : "I can give you 20%" Microsoft : "80%" Spammer : "40!" Microsoft : "50% and we got a deal!" *Shakes hand in agreement*
Colosse.
Most people these days don't even use their ISP email addresses, because they may change and are often hard to remember in the first place.
My local ISP is named after my town, which has six letters. I have a three character username, so it is essentially xyz@mytown.net. That is a helluva lot easier than rox0r432@hotmail.com.
Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith
Boromir is Faramir' brother. Both are the sons of Denethor. Neither could ever be the king of Gondor, since they are the stewards, charged with taking care of the kingdom until the return of the rightful king. For Boromir to be Faramir's son would require some plot manipulations that even Peter Jackson would probably feel uncomfortable with.
GF.
Lots of petrified grits
A class action suit is filed against microsoft for bugs in IIS, Outlook and IE.
Sending tonnes of virus spam and cloging up networks.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Actually Microsoft is suing spammers because they don't like the competition.
Has Comcast disconnected your Internet account? Same here. You can read about it at http://comcastissue.blogspot.com
I realize that this was a tongue in cheek post, but really, is it that far of a stretch. I can just imagine a room full of bean counters nodding agreement with the idiot who thought up the scheme.
-Ben
these are not free to operate
I thought everyone paid the Microsoft Tax when they bought a computer.
Apparently Microsoft hates spammers as much as the rest of us. Now if they'd only hate the other scourge of the Internet as much as the rest of us do...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Even if Microsoft intended to do that, I question whether they could actually move on the issue of selling a subscriber list so quickly.
The original news.com.com story is slightly more informative.
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It's also slightly more