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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.

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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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