____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Friday 30 November 2007 16:59 : \____
> On Nov 30, 12:56 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Microsoft having problems with Hotmail server?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Forums are alight with posters who report that they haven't been able to
>> | receive messages sent through Hotmail since November 26. Some have also
>> | expressed annoyance that they can't reach Microsoft directly to report the
>> | problem.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15577/1054/
>>
>> Related:
>>
>> If Intent Can Be Proven, Microsoft Could Face Millions Of Mail Fraud Charges
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The final results bore out the "conventional wisdom." If emails were
>> | donuts, Hotmail would be HomerSimpsonMail. I don't need to reiterate the
>> | figures, there they are in blue and red. But for a Hotmail account to
>> | destroy up to 81% of all emails with attachments prior to their delivery
>> | to a "generic" ISP email account is nothing short of absurd, as these
>> | Hotmail accounts were not the free variety, but the fully paid ones.
>> | Compare those figures to the ones where the generic ISP email accounts
>> | exchanged emails with attachments and you will clearly see the difference.
>> | The worst performance was in making 2% Vanish.
>> `----
>>
>> http://hubpages.com/hub/Hotmail_Fails_To_Deliver_Up_To_81_Of_All_Atta...
>>
>> Botnet army' behind tenfold rise in 'attachment' spam
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | "No one but the spam group knows how many PCs they can control with this
>> | spambot, it is assumed to be a high five figure number. If each of the PCs
>> | is instructed to send 200-300 spam messages containing a PDF attachment
>> | the spammers can send hundreds or millions of spam messages in a day -
>> | equivalent to 25 percent of all spam sent on a given day."
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13866...
>>
>> Hotmail engine overhaul
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The redesign effort, even its more ambitious aspects, is not
>> | a total wash, however.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | With Hotmail, Microsoft was at the end of its development rope.
>> | Every new feature basically had to be "hacked" into the code.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6181819-2.html?tag=st.next
>>
>> It's ME vs. MICROSOFT - Who Will Win ?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Now, the only problem with #1 is that IT DOES NOT WORK. When Microsoft
>> | blackholes your email, or bounces it with "550 Your e-mail was rejected
>> | for policy reasons on this gateway.", no amount of client whitelisting is
>> | going to help (I tried it). This leaves me with option #2 - well I say
>> | "F-You Microsoft, I'm not paying for YOUR STUPID MISTAKES!"
>> `----
>>
>> http://success.grownupgeek.com/index.php/2007/09/28/its-me-vs-microso...
>>
>> A Hybrid Approach to E-Mail: The Best of Both Worlds
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Given corporations' existing investments and their potential need to
>> | support additional Microsoft Exchange-compatible applications in the
>> | future, this hybrid open/proprietary approach will only work if it
>> | allows users to drop in an e-mail server without making changes to
>> | desktops or infrastructure.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | A better approach employs a product that is compatible at the
>> | network-protocol level with the existing infrastructure. Outlook
>> | on the desktop will "think" it is talking to Exchange when it is
>> | really talking to the new Linux e-mail server, and end users do
>> | not know they are on a different server. IT professionals get a
>> | Linux e-mail server with higher performance, that uses lower-cost
>> | storage, and that works with existing datacenter applications such
>> | as Active Directory.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/57232.html
>>
>> Hotmail's antispam measures snuff out legit emails, too
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Hotmail users and email server admins, beware: you may be unknowingly
>> | caught in the crossfire of Microsoft's war on spam. Unintended
>> | casualties include legitimate emails from domains with
>> | well-established reputations, which are systematically blocked
>> | with absolutely no notice and little recourse.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/01/hotmail_friendly_fire/
>>
>> Hotmail still riddled with spam
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Microsoft has admitted that up to 98 per cent of messages sent to
>> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> | Hotmail addresses are spam.
>> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | The findings will disappoint Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who
>> | predicted at the 2004 Davos World Economic Forum that spam would
>> | be "eliminated" within two years.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2188226/hotmail-riddled-spam-admits
>>
>> Vista: What To Do When You Cannot Delete a Message in Windows Mail
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | A number of users are experiencing problems with Windows Mail and
>> | deleting messages from the Inbox and Outbox. The message will first
>> | become unviewable in the reading pane and will then generate an
>> | error when you try to delete it.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2270/vista_what_to_do_when_you_cannot_...
>>
>> Microsoft looking into Hotmail, Messenger problems
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Microsoft engineers were looking into problems with Windows Live
>> | Hotmail and Live Messenger on Thursday after users reported
>> | problems getting onto the services.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6175597.html
>>
>> Microsoft shipped OneCare unfinished?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Since shipping in May, OneCare has failed industry tests and exposed
>> | users to attack because of a security flaw in the antivirus engine.
>> | The application also incorrectly flagged Gmail as a virus and in some
>> | cases quarantined or even deleted complete in-boxes when a single
>> | e-mail was laden with a virus.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6168629.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0...
>>
>> Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
>> | average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
>> | could find it here.
>> |
>> | Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
>> | because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
>> | real digital inequities in the world.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202
>
> My wife's hotmail account continues to reject all emails from me, with
> or without attachments. She keeps trying things hoping it will help,
> but is finally coming around to getting an account somewhere else.
I often see people talking about reduction is SPAM (that manages to actually
arrive boxes). It's merely a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Cringely talked about losing up to 90% of the legitimate mail with one
provider. Oh great! Let's just get some poor discriminant and filter out based
on a poor threshold. Great! No SPAM. Not much mail either. It's all being
killed, unless it's somehow seen as 'pure'.
SPAM will be a resolved issue when zombie PCs, of which there appear to be
hundreds of millions (Windows PCs) cease to exist and attempt to connect to
mail servers.
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