> "East Side Journal reports that without telling anyone, Microsoft > has suddenly changed the privacy preferences for all Hotmail users. > They're now sharing your name and other personal information with > third parties, even if you said you didn't want that when you > signed up. (If you're a user, login, go to Options > Personal > Profile, and un-check the boxes at the bottom of that page.)" > > Yahoo did this last month, of course. The lack of any punishment for > this act seems to have encouraged Microsoft to follow suit. And, if > you're a hotmail subscriber, it may be too late to fix it. By the > time you turn your settings off, they've likely sold their mailing > list to N spammers already, who are in turn selling it to others.
De facto, they've done that for years. Anybody with a Hotmail account gets spammed even if they never make their address public. More likely due to incompetence or Hotmail employees taking bribes than top-level policy, but a pro-spammer privacy policy could hardly make Hotmail any worse than it is already. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
