Irritation With Microsoft and Passport

From: Knick (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:54:37 -0800

I registered a product yesterday, which required me to
create a Passport ID. As the registered email address, I
used one of my sub-accounts which has existed for over a
year, but one that I have never posted anything to or
from, despite it being active and valid.

Within 12 hours, I received spam at this address. I read
the privacy statement and could not detect any variations
from the 'we will not disclose.....' language.

This is unacceptable. I do not need Passport that badly,
so I am terminating the account.

Unbelievable.

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