Hotmail closes email accounts on hearsay

Hotmail closes email accounts on hearsay
Tim Richardson, The Register 2004-06-23

Hotmail has been caught closing down email accounts accused of spamming without carrying out proper checks first.

Hotmail closes email accounts on hearsay 2004-06-24
Anonymous

In the advent of what has been happening on the net over the course of the last few weeks

I do not blame hotmail at all.

The Internet has changed, like the man on the moon event that changed the world.

Over the last few weeks there has been something going on. Internet activity that is

unexplai...

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Hotmail closes email accounts on hearsay 2004-06-24
bout-time

I wish someone would just shut down hotmail, yahoo mail and all the others. IT security people could use some time off dealing with that junk....

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Hotmail closes email accounts on hearsay 2004-06-25
VM

That's not a new policy.

My account was closed when a spammer used my address in forged "From" fields -- He retaliated after I taunted him.

Worse, I asked Hotmail at least to forward me some of the bounced messages so I could identify the origin and take legal or technical actions gainst the spam...

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