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Microsoft Offers Tools to Spamming ISPs

Posted by Zonk on from the pork-checking-tools dept.

Michael writes "Computer Business Review reports that 'Internet service providers curious to know how much spam they are sending Hotmail users will be able to get detailed reports on the topic, courtesy of a service Microsoft launched in beta yesterday.' Microsoft's new Smart Network Data Services, a part of the larger MSN Portmaster initiative, allows the owners of IP blocks to view reports on the volume of email being sent from their networks to Hotmail users, and see how much of that email is being flagged as spam."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Insightful

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  2. Please raise your hands... by guyfromindia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Internet service providers curious to know how much spam they are sending Hotmail users, please raise your hands...
    ummmm.. I dont see any.. Seriously, if ISP's were THAT concerned about the amount of spam their clients are generating, I wouldnt have to worry about spam, in the first place...

  3. Re:And the real question by dilvish_the_damned · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nope, but their customers might want to know how effective the SPAM tactics are working.

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    I think you underestimate just how much I just dont care.
  4. Re:You aren't very smart, are you? by javaxman · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This includes spam that users themselves mark as such. Very smart idea if ISPs actually use it.

    Even better. If you are a spammer, this gives you the most useful data ever: how much of my spam is actually being recognized as spam? I'd want my spam messages to be so clever or so interesting that users don't readily figure out that it's spam.

    Of course, I'm not a spammer, and few who stoop to such pathetic marketing tactics would think enough to craft a message that ( to a person ) in not easily recognizable as spam, so I guess you have a point.