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Microsoft limits Hotmail e-mail to deter spam | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: Forbes.com | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Microsoft Corp. has cracked down on e-mail spam by limiting the number of e-mails users can send from its free MSN Hotmail account, the world's largest software company said on Monday.
Internet spammers sending mass e-mail advertisements -- ranging from get-rich-quick schemes to instant loans to sex toys and online pornography -- often use free e-mail accounts at Web-based e-mail services such as Hotmail to send their messages.
To limit such activity, Microsoft earlier this month initiated a rule that free e-mail users won't be able to send to more than 100 e-mail addresses in a 24-hour period, Microsoft MSN's lead product manager Lisa Gurry said. | ||
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| #1 By 3653 (63.162.177.140) at 3/25/2003 11:47:23 AM |
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macrosslover,
then the spammers would just send spam with the words sexx, breastts, enlargment, and debtt |
| #2 By 6859 (206.156.242.36) at 3/25/2003 12:29:31 PM |
| they're already doing that. I get spam with sex spelled "secks" to get around filters.... |
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