Changing email address

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:14:44AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> Hotmail's latest ``feature'' is that they're reputably flagging any e-mail
>> that doesn't implement Microsoft's versions of SPF or Domain Keys (causing
>> many ISPs to remove SPF records since hotmail is somewhat less hostile to
>> hosts with no SPF than to ones that publish them, but adhere to standards
>> -- such as they are for SPF :-).
>
>I presume they're trying to force people off SPF to their own thing...
>amusingly enough, I suspect the result will be to precipitously lose
>subs at hotmail...

Hotmail *IS* owned by Microsoft so it's natural that they will
attempt to push Microsoft's proprietary ``enhancements''.

One might also think that Microsoft's support of the U.S.
``CAN-SPAM'' laws, which was supported by the Direct Marketing
Assoctian, and other mainsleaze spammers would be suspicious.

Microsoft wants to control spam sent to their customers to be
sure that it's been sent by them or others who've paid M$ for the
priviledge of spamming them.

Bill
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