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Krebs on Microsoft Suspending "Patch Tuesday" Emails and Blaming Canada
tsu doh nimh writes In a move that may wind up helping spammers, Microsoft is blaming a new Canadian anti-spam law for the company's recent decision to stop sending regular emails about security updates for its Windows operating system and other Microsoft software. Some anti-spam experts who worked very closely on Canada's Anti-Spam Law (CASL) say they are baffled by Microsoft's response to a law which has been almost a decade in the making. Indeed, an exception in the law says it does not apply to commercial electronic messages that solely provide "warranty information, product recall information or safety or security information about a product, goods or a service that the person to whom the message is sent uses, has used or has purchased." Several people have observed that Microsoft likely is using the law as a convenient excuse for dumping an expensive delivery channel.
>You can even setup a cronjob or a windows task to open the website on a regular basis if you are extra forgetful or lazy.
Yes, because that's something normal people routinely do...or you're totally disconnected from reality, but just smart enough to realize that you're stupid, so you posted as an AC.