Spam Re: IBM HDDs for sale - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Feb 2002

On Feb 8, 20:22, Doc wrote:
...
  On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Dan Kolb wrote:

 > How many spams are actually sent from Hotmail or Yahoo? (As opposed to having
...
   forged From:
fields)? 
   A lot from Hotmail, not so many from Yahoo.  The problem with both is
 that it's trivial to get an account.  Doesn't matter a lot if they TOS
 you 6 hours later.
   In my experience, Yahoo seems to respond more decisively to
 complaints. 
I was amused by a message on one of the comp.sys.acorn (IIRC) newsgroups
yesterday.  Someone received some spam from a Hotmail account, hastily read
the rest of his email, cut and pasted headers and body into a complaint to
Hotmail's abuse address before going out, and sent it off.  A few hours
later he found his friend's account had been terminated.  He'd cut and
pasted from the wrong message, and Hotmail accepted the complaint without
question!

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						University of York