Re: [SLUG] Test of Gmail

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Wed Jun 09 2004 - 13:55:28 EDT


Levi Bard wrote:

>
>> i just have my hotmail accoutn label anything that is not from
>> somebody on my address book as spam and it to go in the trash and be
>> auto deleted.... I missed when hotmail was fast .... back in the days
>> when cnet owned it and they were using FreeBSD to run the servers.
>> Then MS bought them out and there was a long dark era when MS keep
>> trying to convert them all over to windows. The finally did but
>> hotmail was never the same again.
>>
>>
> I have it set the same way, but mysteriously spam gets into the inbox
> anyway. But like I said, I just use it for junk, so...(shrug)

There's nothing mysterious about it. Microsoft has "partner" relationships with the spammers you still get spam from. Thus, it's not "spam" because the guys that own the servers "solicit" it.
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