[oman-l] Unsolicited Pornography
Billyboy
billyboy@gto.net.om
Sat, 06 Jun 1998 05:56:30 GMT
I refer to the unsolicited pornography that appeared on this
site a couple of days ago. I reported it to both
'postmaster' and 'abuse' @hotmail, and received the
following reply which my interest folk. Complaining to the
right people DOES work!!
We have closed the account that you reported.
Hotmail does not condone or support the sending of junk
email (aka "spam")
through our system. The Hotmail Terms of Services (TOS)
strictly forbids sending unsolicited email and we terminate
all reported
accounts that are in violation of the TOS.
We appreciate your mail alerting us to the spammer using our
system. Our
ANTI-SPAM policy can be found at
http://www.hotmail.com/nospam.html
Read about Hotmail's recent victories in the fight against
SPAM:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C21822%2C00.html?sas.mail
http://www.hotmail.com/cgi-bin/pressrel.cgi?from=corp&content=pressnospam2
Visit the following ANTI-SPAM related Web sites for more
information on
how to combat SPAM and what you can do about it.
"Help stop Scam Spammers!"
http://www.junkemail.org/scamspam/
Maintainer of the SPAM-L FAQ
http://www.ot.com/~dmuth/spam-l
Complaint Addresses (GoodGuys|Unresponsive|Foe)
http://www-fofa.concordia.ca/spam/complaints.shtml
"If you want to improve your spam-fighting skills, check
out"
http://abuse.net/spam-l.
Anchor Desk "Special Spam Fighting Edition"
http://www4.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_index_19970819.html
How to Get Rid of Junk Mail, and Telemarketers
http://www.csn.net/~felbel/jnkmail.html
Best Regards,
>Hotmail Policy Enforcement
>abuse@hotmail.com (408) 222-7011
>Forward full message and header of email in question