Finally Microsoft Does Something Smart ... (1 Viewer)

[Aurel Savin]

Microsoft sets e-mail limits to fight spam

This is the best news I heard so far to fight Spam. Now if all the other freebie email sites could follow (Yahoo, mail.com)

 

[Chris Lockwood]

But how many spammers are using free email accounts?

 

[Mathew Shelby]

Most of them...

 

[Josh Lowe]

Most commercial spammers hit open SMTP relays w/ custom software written for the purpose of sending mass emails. Not hotmail, etc.

 

[Scott L]

Well I love this move and was wondering if they did something like this currently. I hope more email companies follow.

 

[BrianB]

Most of them...

No, generally spam doesn't come from the address listed - if it says [email protected], it's generally not really from that address - it's a faked address with the email sent through an open relay somewhere down the chain.

 

[Kelley_B]

the best way to fight spam is at the ISP level.

 

[Ryanlion]

Bump.

 

[DavidMiller]

Why are you bumping an article from 2003??

 

[David Norman]

Why are you bumping an article from 2003??

It's about the 4th or 5th random thread he's bumped from 2003 in the last couple days -- none of them relevant to anything and none with any additional comment other than 'bump.'

It's usually the type thing you see from a Chinese spambot when they need to get enough posts to start posting garbage, but I'm not sure in this case why. May be time for a mod to look into things

 

[DaveF]

Bump.

Please stop. Further "bumps" will lead to loss of membership privileges.