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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.
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...
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
these are not free to operate
I thought everyone paid the Microsoft Tax when they bought a computer.
The original news.com.com story is slightly more informative.
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It's also slightly more