Are you certain that you haven't told anyone? I've been using Hotmail for years with multiple accounts and have hardly had any pr0n on my Hotmail list. In fact, I've pared my Hotmail accounts down to two (one for personal and one for business) and about the only unwanted things I get are for Viagra. And that's only ONE spam.

Perhaps what's happened is that you have checked certain options when you signed up your account. From there your new e-mail address (iirc) goes to a few select companies that you inadvertantly left checked when you signed up your account. To blame MS for the credibility of other companies is ludicrous. Those same companies could very well be selling them to pr0n companies. Where is MS at fault?

Either I'm very lucky or you are not. Throw in a little bit of ignorance and I'm betting it's worse on your end. I say it's neither MS's fault nor blame it on my being lucky. I think it's squarely your own fault for allowing this to happen to you.

Thanks for playing. Come again.

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