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Microsoft Going After Hotmail Spammers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the aegean-stables dept.

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.

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  1. I wish they'd target their spammer USERS! by rdmiller3 · · Score: 2, Redundant
    I don't care if MS goes after spammers who target HotMail users... but more than half of the SPAM I get in my in-box comes through some HotMail address! HotMail is the spammer.

    It's too easy for spammers to use a free HotMail account (like "bigscam89734@hotmail.com") to send SPAM from. Microsoft should fix that first.