I always figured since my hotmail profile says I'm male and over 21 that's why it gets about 160 spam mails (that don't fail their spam filters) per week. Don't they do the same thing Juno mail does and pay for the service by selling the address to 'Advertising Partners'? My 17 year old sister in law get no adult spam to her hotmail address at all, and 99% of mine is, that says target marketing to me. I only have the address as a remote test account, to validate mail routing to my domain hosting customers, and rarely even then. If it were not a free mail account then I would say it would be a lot of work to get it listed, but I know there are only two ways to pay for a service, you pay or the advertisers pay.
Chuck Frolick ArgoNet, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 8:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Fighting the Menace of Unwanted E-Mail >Gosh I'd like to know how he made that account and got it spammed so >quickly. That knowledge would be quite a tool. By this: >| A few days ago I created a new e-mail account, and within 24 >| hours I had received over 25 unsolicited commercial e-mail >| messages, otherwise known as spam. He means "A few days ago I created an account on Hotmail that had once existed, but since I just created it, it's a new E-mail account." Unless he was extremely active in trying to receive spam, I can't think of any other way that it could have happened. Or, he may have used his "poetic license" to count the number of spams he received. -Scott --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
