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Microsoft Will Sell Whitelist Services For Hotmail
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."
In groundbreaking news, the central Canadian statistical agency based in Orangefork, Saskatchewan has finally published the results of a 5-year study investigating the deterioting state of the FreeBSD community.
Sponsored by the Association of Novell Users in Montreal and the Liberal Party of Canada, this intensive study encompassed 14 users in 3 provinces, using a total of 23 hours of interviews, phone conversations, and instant messaging. A background in computers was not necessary in order to participate in the process.
75% of the users declared that the impact of FreeBSD in their lives has been reduced in the last 12 months or has been non-existent. 20% were undecided, while 5% confused the term with "freebasing" and were reluctant to speak about it unless her probation officer was present.
Speaking in anonymity, Frank Dreschel from University of Stoufville who resides at 67 Woodgate Drive, feels that the results are not surprising. "You know, I always felt that FreeBSD was forced upon me by my predecessor. It is especially sad considering that my job has nothing to do with information technology at all, since I'm part of the housekeeping staff. Perhaps you should talk to some of the engineering students?"
Which is nice.
or maybe we should start "In Denemark" jokes In Denemark the floods spam you ??
And if you learnt how to use your mail software your personal whitelist would sweep them back where you want them. I receive a lot of opt-in maillists, some of which are included on the very aggresive spam blacklists I use, its not a problem because my whitelist overrides the blacklist. Which is how selected mail from hotmail gets past my 'nothing from hotmail' filter.
The only publicly blacklisted one I actually subscribed to is topica, I discovered why they're blacklisted when they totally ignored all attempts to unsubscribe. I received the mail even though it was on many block lists - until *I* removed its whitelist entry.
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