[Am-info] Microsoft Hotmail spam

[Eric M. Hopper]

On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 05:38, John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> 
> Does anyone else get spam from Hotmail addresses?
> 
> IMV Microsoft is responsible for sending out such unsolicited junk email 
> because they are owners of the system where it originates.
> 
> 
> Has anyone every tried to complain about it? Who would you complain to 
> anyway?
> 
> It would be nice to see some class action taken against them.
> 
> Wasn't there some legislation recently to try and curb this abuse?

Are you sure the spam is actually from Hotmail?  If you look at the
headers, I bet it came from someplace completely different.  If Hotmail
actually sent out spam, they'd be on the RBL in 2 seconds flat, and
their users wouldn't be able to reach 10-30% of the world.

The From: header was probably forged to look like it came from hotmail.

Have fun (if at all possible),
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