# Hotmail: A Spammer's Paradise?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923
**Category:** random
**Created:** [January 9, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923 "2003-01-09T15:28:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ahmed](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ahmed)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/1 "2003-01-09T15:28:10Z")
found this interesting article on [wired.com](http://wired.com)
[Hotmail: A Spammer’s Paradise?](http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57132,00.html)
thought some of you might like it…=)
:A+:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/2 "2003-01-09T15:33:31Z")
Hotmail sucks. No doubt about it. But you have to have one when you sign up for stuff cause you dont want your real address going on 6000 mailing lists…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/3 "2003-01-09T15:42:02Z")
I use hotmail! And I use junk mail filter too! So almost all of the stuff I don’t need goes to the junk mail folder! I have no problem with it!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/4 "2003-01-09T15:46:52Z")
You need hotmail (well i do) because of MSN Messenger :P, most
ppl use that…
What will happen when they start charging for using MSN MEssenger.
Any side-chat programs? equal to MSN, (ICQ?, YAHOO)…
:o
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/5 "2003-01-09T16:00:16Z")
but are they going to charge?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/6 "2003-01-09T16:02:11Z")
I’ve heard something about a new version that costs! But hey! You can still use the older free versions! Not so bad!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/7 "2003-01-09T16:37:00Z")
dear God, that is so correct…
in any given day, my Inbox would have 200+ messages and **ZERO** messages in the Junk Mail Folder. i put the filter to the most strict setting and it’s doing jack. It is official, **Hotmail sucks**.
i’ve just completely abandoned my hotmail account for good.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/8 "2003-01-09T19:03:54Z")
same here :(…
but what can i say… microsoft:sleep: :sleep: :sleep:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/9 "2003-01-09T19:08:20Z")
> \*Originally posted by thoriphes \*
> \*\*dear God, that is so correct…
in any given day, my Inbox would have 200+ messages and **ZERO** messages in the Junk Mail Folder. i put the filter to the most strict setting and it’s doing jack. It is official, **Hotmail sucks**.
i’ve just completely abandoned my hotmail account for good. \*\*
what ya talking about???
I have the filter on default… I guess… maybe Enhanched but 90% of the junk mail goes to the Junk mail folder! I have aboslutely no problem with hotmail!
[EDIT]
ahmed: don’t like microsoft? then don’t use any of their products! I don’t undesrtand why people don’t like microsoft!!!
If there wasn’t microsoft I’d be on a linux or somethin!
[/EDIT]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/10 "2003-01-09T19:13:15Z")
well, i guess i forgot to say…i’ve had this e-mail forever. i mean it was probably my first account ever. over the years my address may have stuck with some databases who were victims to spammers. so i’m sorry if i sounded too harsh, especially to the avid hotmail users. i’m just really enraged how microsoft isn’t doing such a good job with their junk mail filter. i even prevented receiving some messages from specific filters in the subject/e-mail but that doesn’t seem to work as well.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/11 "2003-01-09T19:20:46Z")
I have aboslutely no problem with hotmail!
Of course I will get a new account ([myname@mysite.com](mailto:myname@mysite.com)) after I finish my homepage! But there’s nothing wrong with hotmail! Maybe 2mb is a bit too little but at least the security is good!
There’s an estonian mail service where you get 10mb but the security is awful! Even I managed to get past the security… yeh better not talk about it here :)!
But hotmail didn’t become the largest mail service just by being …lame or sth! AND THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH MICROSOFT EITHER! =)
I’m done! 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/12 "2003-01-09T19:25:17Z")
> \*Originally posted by Syko \*
> \*\*don’t like microsoft? then don’t use any of their products! I don’t undesrtand why people don’t like microsoft!!!
> If there wasn’t microsoft I’d be on a linux or somethin!
> [/EDIT] \*\*
hm… okay… i dont want to start start a flame war or anything, but yeah, i kinda hate microsoft… not use their products? well i’d like to, but i dont have my own computer to run linux, and if i dont think i can currently afford a mac… but im sure if it was totally up to me, i’d never use a wintel box again…
again, this is just my opinion, im not trying to offend anyone lol… 🙂
:A+:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/13 "2003-01-09T20:02:04Z")
Phil:
I didn’t realize you were Swiss!
That explains the World Domination thang…
😠
Rev
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/14 "2003-01-09T20:06:28Z")
I dont mind some of the junk mail I get… If you know what I mean ;);):bad:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/15 "2003-01-09T20:18:55Z")
Phil:
I heard you can always tell a German…
You just can’t tell him much…
:beam: :hair: :beam: :hair: :beam: ;( :sigh: 😛
Rev
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/16 "2003-01-09T20:37:13Z")
> \*Originally posted by Phil Jayhan \*
> \*\*you get 6 megabytes with yahoo and GREAT spam filters that werk~
cheers \*\*
Good deal, am going to register an account now.
cheers;
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/17 "2003-01-09T21:26:58Z")
I use Hotmail for my spam acct. It’s the one I use when I have to give a varifiable email. I have 15 custom filters (anything with my name in the subject line, etc.) and the spam filter on full. Most things end up in the junk mail folder, and around 5 a day make it through.
I use yahoo to get my pop acct when I am away from my comp., and to get public email (on business cards, etc.), and very little spam gets through.
For all that is worth…
Rev
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/18 "2003-01-09T21:32:25Z")
> \*Originally posted by Oblique \*
> \*\*I dont mind some of the junk mail I get… If you know what I mean ;);):bad: \*\*
LOL I get that kinda stuff too but most of them suck! :P:P;)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/19 "2003-01-09T21:55:10Z")
Anyone who doesn’t like Microsoft is horribly misinformed, or something.
They’ve done nother wrong. Gates’ software was groundbreaking, and just because he’s richer and better and more successful than all of us doesn’t make his software \*\*\*\*. This guy is a genius that practially invented OS’s.
By the by, Hotmail works fine for me. Yahoo was too ugly for me, Phil, that’s why I don’t use it anymore. If it’s improved, I don’t care, I’ve already chosen a side.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hotmail-a-spammers-paradise/10923/20 "2003-01-09T21:57:16Z")
[SIZE=3] **YEAH** :)[/SIZE]
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