[Am-info] Microsoft Hotmail spam

[Roy Bixler]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 07:51:47AM -0500, Eric M. Hopper wrote:
> 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.

I understand that, if the spam comes from Hotmail or the spammer
simply has a drop box there, they are quick to nuke the offending
account.  On the other hand, they are sometimes too quick, as the
following Register article describes:

Verified: you can get anybody you want kicked off Hotmail
http://theregister.co.uk/content/archive/20106.html

-- 
Roy Bixler <rcb@bix.org>
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