On Feb 8, 20:22, Doc wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Dan Kolb wrote:
>
> > How many spams are actually sent from Hotmail or Yahoo? (As opposed to
having
> > forged From: fields)?
>
> A lot from Hotmail, not so many from Yahoo. The problem with both is
> that it's trivial to get an account. Doesn't matter a lot if they TOS
> you 6 hours later.
> In my experience, Yahoo seems to respond more decisively to
> complaints.
I was amused by a message on one of the comp.sys.acorn (IIRC) newsgroups
yesterday. Someone received some spam from a Hotmail account, hastily read
the rest of his email, cut and pasted headers and body into a complaint to
Hotmail's abuse address before going out, and sent it off. A few hours
later he found his friend's account had been terminated. He'd cut and
pasted from the wrong message, and Hotmail accepted the complaint without
question!
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Sat Feb 09 2002 - 03:48:53 GMT