For users of Microsoft's ListBot service, the free ride is over. The Redmond, Wash.-based company on Thursday warned subscribers to the ListBot electronic mailing-list management service that it will be disabled Aug. 6. Customers have until Aug. 20 to retrieve existing data. The closure, which Microsoft acquired as part of its LinkExchange in November 1998, reflects the software giant's move to paid Web services such as HailStorm, part of the Microsoft.Net Web services strategy.
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