[thelist] Hotmail trashes e-mail

[Jake Stetser]

Hotmail uses the RBL, an anti-spam list of IPs and IP blocks known to have
sent spam (and who usually have been uncooperative). (And of course this is
mentioned in the article)

I think that's a good thing. If you are concerned about your email getting
to your contacts, don't host with an ISP that hosts spammers. I see that
Hotmail also blocks outgoing mail to these sites. I think they should have
made that apparent to people, but otherwise I see no problem with it.
Hotmail is a private business, not a public property, and I applaud them for
making the decision not to deal with spammers.

<rant>
And for heaven's sake, if you NEED to get email to someone, don't use
Hotmail or YahooMail or any free email service.
</rant> 


-----Original Message-----
From: Schelling, Michael [mailto:schellim at spawar.navy.mil]
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 5:58 AM
To: 'thelist at lists.evolt.org'
Subject: [thelist] Hotmail trashes e-mail


"In an apprently overzealous attempt to prevent spam, Microsoft's Hotmail
has been discarding e-mail sent to and from sites hosted by controversial
Internet service providers - even if the sites themselves were not
controversial.... However, many of those ISPs also host sites that don't
send spam, and those sites often are blocked, too."

The complete article is at http://www.msnbc.com/news/518308.asp?0nm=B1BM

Mike

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