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Subject: Spam2 of 3 Frequent Asked Questions Re $9.99 to build your own
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NEWS FLASH: Hotmail Takes The Offensive Against Spammers
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/0126/278638.html
http://www.hotmail.com/pressnospam.html

Thanks for contacting Hotmail, the original & world's largest free 
web-based email provider.

We DON'T maintain or manage any mailing lists. We provide free email 
accounts from which our users send & receive email. To ensure user 
privacy, we don't monitor the content of messages as they come and go. 
That being said, our TOS forbids email abuse including spam, & we 
enforce our TOS with zero-tolerance zeal. 

The account you reported HAS BEEN CLOSED. +99% of these are forged 
header addresses in spam NOT SENT BY OR THROUGH Hotmail. We employ 
tough 
spam counter-measures:

1) We severely LIMIT the number of individual recipients allowed per 
each email, making Hotmail ineffective for spam.

2) Any Hotmail username beginning with a NUMERIC character is a 
forgery.

3) We include "X-Originating-IP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]" in the header 
section of each email we deliver; if email doesn't contain this line in 
the full header, it DIDN'T come from Hotmail. 

4) We maintain a FULL login IP history on each Hotmail account. 

5) We BLOCK our relay hosts from improper use.

6) We have announced LEGAL action against spammers who forge Hotmail 
addresses into their spam, which NOT SENT BY OR THROUGH our service. 

In general, we've found it's a BAD idea to reply to "remove" addresses, 
as this usually only confirms your email address as active, and sends 
extra spam your way.

You may find some of the links below useful in your spam-fighting 
efforts. Please contact us if we can be of further help.

 - Hotmail Policy Enforcement (Abuse)

Fwd Hotmail spam to: abuse@hotmail.com (full msg AND headers)
Hotmail TOS: http://www.hotmail.com/cgi-bin/tos.cgi          
Hotmail UCE policy: http://www.hotmail.com/nospam.html   
GoodGuys: http://www-fofa.concordia.ca/spam/complaints.shtml
Responsible sites: http://spam.abuse.net/goodsites/
UCE closures posted: news.admin.net-abuse.email
FTC ScamSpam: http://www.junkemail.org/scamspam/
Spam-L FAQ: http://www.ot.com/~dmuth/spam-l
"When a problem comes along, you must whip it."