> Given Hotmail's long >history of easy hacking/stealing passwords and being a SOURCE of >spamming/friendly to spammers (as in "selling your info"),
Yeah, my cell phone came with Email service, and I was forced to use a hotmail account... I signed up, used an odd set of letters and numbers to have a reasonably difficult to guess address, and then told NO ONE, not even my wife, that I had the email address. The next day my cell phone beeped to tell me I had new email, and I did... spam. I cleared it, and it repeated about every hour for the next two days until I called the cell phone company and told them to cancel the email service. It wasn't going to do me any good if it was going to get regular spam before anyone even knew the address existed. So yeah, Hotmail definitly shares their userlist with spammers, and does so very quickly. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
