Spammers have discovered that if you send from a Hotmail account, but forge the From: address, Hotmail refuses to listen to complaints. Pathetic!
I received the "You've won the lottery" spam, delivered directly from a Hotmail server:
Received: from bay0-omc3-s26.bay0.hotmail.com ([65.54.246.226]) by mail.spsu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKJRJ-0001aO-Vq for bMbUrNoGwEnD@spsu.edu; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:12:44 -0500I sent the entire message, including headers, as shown in the "evidence" link below, to abuse@hotmail.com. Microsoft responded with "you didn't send us enough information." Pathetic! Even more astonishing, they sent a later response saying Abuse@hotmail.com and abuse@msn.com do NOT process spam reports. These accounts only process abusive e-mails in, but not limited, to the following categories [snip]. Spam is not abuse. Riiiiight, Microsoft!
Conclusion: Microsoft is not interested in stopping spam from Hotmail. Corollary: You should refuse mail from Hotmail servers.
Evidence: the original spam email and Hotmail's response.
(My own email address in above and in the 'EVIDENCE' links has been munged to prevent other spammers from harvesting it from these pages. You can un-munge it by inspection; just remove MUNGED. Complete contact information for me is here: /contact.html).
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