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Guess you won't hear from "betchacantfindme@ho*.co*" anytime
soon.
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:29:04
From: "Hotmail Customer Support: account_closed"
<autoresponder@ho*.co*>
Subject: fake email account
To: <kens@ac*.ne*>
NEWS FLASH: Hotmail Takes The Offensive Against Spammers
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/0126/278638.html
http://www.hotmail.com/pressnospam.html
Thanks for contacting Hotmail, the original & world's largest free
web-based email provider.
We DON'T maintain or manage any mailing lists. We provide free email
accounts from which our users send & receive email. To ensure user
privacy, we don't monitor the content of messages as they come and go.
That being said, our TOS forbids email abuse including spam, & we
enforce our TOS with zero-tolerance zeal.
The account you reported HAS BEEN CLOSED. +99% of these are forged
header addresses in spam NOT SENT BY OR THROUGH Hotmail. We employ
tough
spam counter-measures:
1) We severely LIMIT the number of individual recipients allowed per
each email, making Hotmail ineffective for spam.
2) Any Hotmail username beginning with a NUMERIC character is a
forgery.
3) We include "X-Originating-IP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]" in the header
section of each email we deliver; if email doesn't contain this line in
the full header, it DIDN'T come from Hotmail.
4) We maintain a FULL login IP history on each Hotmail account.
5) We BLOCK our relay hosts from improper use.
6) We have announced LEGAL action against spammers who forge Hotmail
addresses into their spam, which NOT SENT BY OR THROUGH our service.
In general, we've found it's a BAD idea to reply to "remove" addresses,
as this usually only confirms your email address as active, and sends
extra spam your way.
You may find some of the links below useful in your spam-fighting
efforts. Please contact us if we can be of further help.
- Hotmail Policy Enforcement (Abuse)
Fwd Hotmail spam to: abuse@ho*.co* (full msg AND headers)
Hotmail TOS: http://www.hotmail.com/cgi-bin/tos.cgi
Hotmail UCE policy: http://www.hotmail.com/nospam.html
GoodGuys: http://www-fofa.concordia.ca/spam/complaints.shtml
Responsible sites: http://spam.abuse.net/goodsites/
UCE closures posted: news.admin.net-abuse.email
FTC ScamSpam: http://www.junkemail.org/scamspam/
Spam-L FAQ: http://www.ot.com/~dmuth/spam-l
"When a problem comes along, you must whip it."
"Thank god for Microsoft. If it weren't for Microsoft, we would have
been the most hated company by regulators."
- John Sidgmore, vice chair of WorldCom, on his tussle with regulators
over its merger with MCI
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