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Hotmail Cracks Down on Spam

Posted by michael on from the improved-profit-margin dept.

Magmar writes "The team at Microsoft has decided to restrict free users from using Outlook and Outlook Express for managing email. This is going to be reserved for those who will pay for their accounts. The reason given for restricting the WebDav access of Outlook and Outlook Express is to prevent spammers from abusing the free service."

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  1. Here is - by thewldisntenuff · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actual link to article - http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1652391,00.as p

    Not to be a grammar/spelling nazi, but wtf is -

    "Microsoft not anticipating the storage that user of the free email accounts..."

    More like (FTA)-

    "We are seeing customers consuming more storage than we anticipated, and we're bringing more storage online," she said.

    I would think this wouldn't have gotten past the eds...But in any case, hope this clears things up.

    -thewldisntenuff

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