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Microsoft continues to spam, despite anti-spam stance

Thu, 06/26/2003 - 07:22 — charlie.collins

Lately Microsoft with MSN has been touting all kinds of anti spam crap. This started a while back. Also AOL is now in the "we stop spam" marketing mode. Well this struck me as strange quite some time ago as much of the spam I see when I bother to monitor it has Microsoft and AOL origins!

Well now it seems others are noticing this trend to. SpamCon and other anti spam groups are calling out Microsoft for its small business services that send out spam, and for the debacle known as Hotmail that Microsoft owns.

It seems that also according to these anti-spam organizations (its not just me) much spam originates on Microsoft servers.

Maybe they are now blocking it for their customers but purposely hoping spam will remain a huge problem for everyone else? That way their MSN crap looks better. Akin to the anti-virus software companies writing viruses, etc. I dont know that that is happening, and honestly dont believe it is, but I do believe Microsoft on one hand doesnt know what the other is doing and its true that they are major SOURCE OF SPAM.

For more see the linked news.com article. Microsoft urged to fry its own spam: news.com