Ive come across a slightly invasive way to defeat hotmail spam. By accident I neglected to check my hotmail account for 30+ days and resultingly, my account was *turned off* by Hotmail's software. the beauty part is that Hotmail has a quick reactive for a grace period in which a quick-reactivate link is available upon denial of login. Consequently, Ive experienced no spamage due to the fact that my account was not valid for a period of time and being caught by a spam engine's invalid list. I didnt get much spam in to comparison to many, but I do get 30 or so everytime I check it. This would altogether stop spam, but may help people who seriously use hotmail and want to reduce spam temporarily (until you get rehit). It wont be long before spammers program around this...so do it while you can.
(I might add I know nothing about spam programming techniques, I just observed..I only use hotmail as a target for a backup email account which receives redirection from the one I use..and for websites:P)
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Ive come across a slightly invasive way to defeat hotmail spam. By accident I neglected to check my hotmail account for 30+ days and resultingly, my account was *turned off* by Hotmail's software. the beauty part is that Hotmail has a quick reactive for a grace period in which a quick-reactivate link is available upon denial of login. Consequently, Ive experienced no spamage due to the fact that my account was not valid for a period of time and being caught by a spam engine's invalid list. I didnt get much spam in to comparison to many, but I do get 30 or so everytime I check it. This would altogether stop spam, but may help people who seriously use hotmail and want to reduce spam temporarily (until you get rehit). It wont be long before spammers program around this...so do it while you can.
:P)
(I might add I know nothing about spam programming techniques, I just observed..I only use hotmail as a target for a backup email account which receives redirection from the one I use..and for websites