Thursday, March 27, 2003
Microsoft has cracked down on e-mail spam by limiting the number of e-mails users can send from its free MSN Hotmail account.
Internet spammers sending mass e-mail advertisements -- ranging from get-rich-quick schemes to instant loans to sex toys and online pornography -- often use free e-mail accounts at Web-based e-mail services such as Hotmail to send their messages.
To limit such activity, Microsoft earlier this month initiated a rule that free e-mail users won't be able to send to more than 100 e-mail addresses in a 24-hour period, Microsoft MSN's lead product manager Lisa Gurry said.
"We're limiting the amount of Hotmail (based) e-mail that a person can send on a given day," Gurry said, adding that the current new 100 e-mail limit was "well within the level that an average person would be able to send via e-mail."
Paying users of MSN's Internet-access services have no e-mail limitations, Microsoft said.
According to Brightmail, an anti-spam software maker, at least two of every five messages sent over the Internet are spam
By: DocMemory
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