From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 19 16:47:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11652 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:47:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA11560 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:47:20 GMT (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id BAA21590; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:47:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:47:18 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Sue Blake Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hotmail References: <19980420074308.58582@welearn.com.au> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS / YASMW X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 20 Apr 1998 01:47:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: Sue Blake's message of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 07:43:08 +1000" Message-ID: Lines: 30 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake writes: > The topic of spam from hotmail has come up here a couple of times. > We all wish they didn't exist, however... > > They seem to have improved their handling of spam reports in recent > weeks, providing responses like the following within hours (which is more > than I can say of many regular ISPs). If anyone is getting pestered by > hotmail spammners it might be worth noting that writing to > abuse@hotmail.com does produce some result these days. If I'm mistaken, > someone please correct me. > > > -----Forwarded message from policy@hotmail.com----- > [...] > Hotmail does not in any way condone or support the sending of junk mail > (aka spam) messages through our system. The Hotmail TOS strictly forbids > this and we terminate all accounts that we are made aware that are in > violation of the TOS. Yeah, right. You *are* aware of the fact that they are in the business of address-gathering and -selling? Send mail to a hotmail account, get spammed. Get mail from a friend with a hotmail account, get spammed. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message