[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But wouldn't it be in Microsoft's best interest to prevent their servers > from being used to spam?
Maybe, but how would they do it? Hotmail must have over 60 million subscribers. Their outgoing mail volume has to be on the order of a billion a day. Filtering that volume of e-mail, or even examining it for trends, poses some pretty extreme technical difficulties. > Even from the economic standpoint of reducing the load/number of > servers required. It's a heck of a lot cheaper to relay a billion messages than to filter them. > It would seem that they would see high levels of traffic coming from bots > that they could throttle/reject. I wouldn't be surprised if more sophisticated bots use zombie networks to log on to Hotmail and send mail via their Web interface. I think it would be pretty hard to notice an anomaly against all their regular traffic. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
