Re: Hotmail spam

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Date: 09/26/03 

Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:51:48 +0000

Chris Gilbert wrote:
> A colleague, while experimenting with spam control stuff, created a
> new Hotmail account. The next day the account, after having been used
> for absolutely nothing in the interim, received two spams.
>
> I appreciate that this could simply be an example of brute force in
> action but I was wondering if anyone was aware of weaknesses in
> Hotmail integrity that might permit it to be harvested for email
> addresses.
>
> TIA
>
> Chris

Hotmail sells your email address. Why do you think they give you a mail
service, for free. Because they're just such wonderful people? 

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