Re: the hotmail hack

[Chuck0 <chuck@tao.ca>]

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Mike wrote:
> 
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> > maintain an anonymous identity for a GeoCities sex site that I maintain.
> > I noticed several months ago a HUGE increase in junk mail to my Hotmail
> > account. It went from 1 spam message a day to 15. I'm convinced that
> > Microsoft sold my Hotmail address to some spam company.
> 
> You are right. I tracked down a spammer who spammed me on Hotmail, gave them
> unholy hell, and was told by them that Microsoft had sold them the list with
> my email address on it, and if I didn't want to be spammed why was I on
> Hotmail.
> 
> Mike

Ah ha! Thanks for the research, Mike, my suspicions are confirmed. I've
been using email since 1992 and I never saw a increase in spam like I
did several months ago with Hotmail. The volume of spam has stayed
constant too.

If we could find out more about this, we could use it against Microsoft.

BTW, my I got my Hotmail account 2 years ago, way before Microsoft took
it over. 

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