Microsoft Will Sell Whitelist Services For Hotmail

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 5, 2004 @12:39AM from the get-what-you-pay-for dept.

Ec|ipse writes "Looks like Microsoft has found another way to make money, this time from spam. Microsoft has adopted a "whitelist" program (Bonded Sender by IronPort) which will allow marketers to pay Microsoft so that they are included on a special whitelist, guaranteeing uninteruptable delivery of their messages to Hotmail and MSN users. You can catch the full article at Excite. I especially like the nice naming for spammers, calling them 'marketers' sounds so much more legitimate." mgibbs adds "Hopefully the $20K fine that results from abuse of this system is enough to deter spammers."

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mmmmmm by panxerox · 2004-05-05 00:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

can anybody say GMAIL?

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Re:Do any journalists know how to use english? by NarrMaster · 2004-05-05 01:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Dude, you taught me something today. Gantlet can mean glove or punishment, but gauntlet is just the glove. That's completely +1 interesting. Alas:
1. I don't have mod points
2. You are an AC

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