On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Paul Mullen wrote:
> >The service first achieved this feat May 19 and has passed America Online
> >[NYSE:AOL] as the world's largest e-mail provider with 15 million account
> >holders.
>
> The only problem is that roughly 10 million of them appear to be spam
> accounts. :-P Much of the spam my AOL accounts receive (indeed, most of
> what my AOL accounts receive _is_ spam) has as its return address a
> hotmail-based account, usually made up of a conglomeration of
> alpha-numerics. On the plus side, it's easy to spot such garbage and
> file it in the bitbucket without bothering to read it. I have no friends
> with the email address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. :-)
>
That is a good point there, when hotmail first started it was a great
service ... but it rapidly grew into a way for people to have anonymous
email addresses so they can spam, send hate mail, or cause other mischef.
Personally, I set my email server to auto-bounce all the hotmail acctouns
back to the sender.. I was getting 9 or 15 spams a day from there and
email hotmail wasn't getting anywhere.
I do have an account on netaddress.com, which I like better. And my wife
has an account there now too .. well because we will loose the dabcc-www
accounts once I move to florida.
Chad
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Chad D. Zimmerman
Southwest Technology Development Institute
New Mexico State University
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