After last week's Minute, I got some disturbing reports that subscribers on MSN were unable to receive mail from Lindows.com. Readers told me that Microsoft has begun labeling my Michael's Minutes as 'spam' to users who have @msn.com accounts. This immediately files incoming messages into a "Junk" folder without ever giving the subscriber the chance to read it. Since Michael's Minute is sent only to people who visit Lindows.com and ask for a subscription - it is never sent unsolicited - this interferes with our business.
Perhaps this is just an innocent error on Microsoft's part, but that's hard to believe given Microsoft's past. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and has been twice convicted of being a duck in Federal Court - even the biggest skeptics must concede that it's a duck. Many of you probably remember Microsoft's legal troubles related to blocking Blue Mountain Arts greeting card emails.
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