Unplugging Email To Combat Spam

monkeyserver.com writes "from Reuters (via CNN) we hear that 'Consumers who allow their infected computers to send out millions of 'spam' messages could be unplugged from the Internet under a proposal released Tuesday by six large e-mail providers.' They are looking at 100 per hour or 500 per day; this doesn't really sound like a bad idea, though it could cause problems for a few people trying to run companies from their basement..." On the other side of the coin, rastakid writes "It appears that Microsoft is taking its actions against spamming a little bit too far: Hotmail accounts which are suspected of sending spam are closed without a single investigation. This article states that Maariv International registered a new Hotmail account and sent an abuse message about spamming activities from that account, while not a single message was sent from it. Microsoft closed the account immediately, without investigating."

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Hotmail is the most adversarial...

[Futurepower(R)]

"... Microsoft closed the account immediately, without investigating."

Maybe this is all part of a comprehensive plan by Microsoft managers to give Microsoft a bad name. Those Microsoft people are business geniuses! They save a little by not investigating abuse, and cost Microsoft millions in bad feeling.

Hotmail is the most adversarial of the free email account providers, I've found. It appears to be the "push people enough and they'll buy" theory of customer relations.

Maybe AOL and Hotmail and Enron and Tyco and WorldCom should merge, so whatever it is, is all in one place.