there is a widely-held view that NDA's are meaningless and un-enforcable. this shows clearly that is not the case. i'm sure apple wants a certain amout of publicity around this to get that point across.
> My theory is that MS sells the user list to spammers...
this is so preposteous it's amusing. complain all you want about MS business practices, but they are doing a lot to prevent spam, and will likely do more in the future. spam costs them a fortune - far more then they could ever make selling lists to people hawking V!AGr4
hotmail gets spam because it's home to so many addresses that generating messages to random names will get a lot of hits.
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there is a widely-held view that NDA's are meaningless and un-enforcable. this shows clearly that is not the case. i'm sure apple wants a certain amout of publicity around this to get that point across.
this is so preposteous it's amusing. complain all you want about MS business practices, but they are doing a lot to prevent spam, and will likely do more in the future. spam costs them a fortune - far more then they could ever make selling lists to people hawking V!AGr4
hotmail gets spam because it's home to so many addresses that generating messages to random names will get a lot of hits.
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