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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Thanks to our good friend Chris P over at Lockergnome for sending us the link over at Peacefire. Anyway here is an excerpt: "After receiving complaints from HotMail users about junk mail in accounts that had never been "publicized" anywhere, we found that HotMail was sharing its member email addresses with InfoSpace.com, which makes the addresses available on its Web site where they can be "harvested" by third parties, including spammers. The statement on the InfoSpace Web site -- "For privacy, we don't show the full email addresses of people listed in our directories" -- turned out not to be correct, since HotMail provides its users with a search interface that allows them to harvest the email addresses of users listed on InfoSpace, including other HotMail users. " | ||
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| #1 By 20 (Unknown) at 3/6/2001 9:04:00 AM |
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1.) This is a free email service, what do you expect? 2.) I've had a hotmail account for about a year now, and the only spam I've received is spam that I got for signing up for this, or signing up for that at various web sites. I've unsubscribed myself from those lists and now I haven't received any spam for over 6 months |
| #2 By 2 (Unknown) at 3/6/2001 9:56:00 AM |
| I think MS does give them away. My hotmail account which I never use receives 60+ spam a day and I never sent or used that e-mail once other than for passport. |
| #3 By 3 (Unknown) at 3/6/2001 10:09:00 AM |
| Same for me - never use the hotmail e-mail in newsgroups etc either and still get 40+ spam a day. |
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