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Well, things must have changed at hotmail since Paul's experience last
year. 

There is/was a local correspondent in canb.general who is/was using a
hotmail nom-de-plume. Because I don't use a spam blocker I get a fair
amount of junkmail from - more often than not - hotmail addresses. I
sent four or five posts to abuse@hotmail.com about this local identity's
"off" mail, complete with headers, and NEVER had a response except from
the autorobot. 

After personal appeals failed the only way anything got done was through
the connecting ISP (thanks).  As far as hotmail was concerned they did
SFA. A well placed post in a Microsoft newsgroup questioning Hotmail and
Microsoft of lax standards (MS own Hotmail as you know) paid off.
Someone (their identity was witheld) at MS read that post and contacted
Hotmail.  That's not a good way to address a problem and creates bad
corporate PR. 

Hotmail and USA.Net are ideal if you want to remain anonymous and make
an unaccountable ass of yourself. Nowadays Hotmail ARE indifferent and
unresponsive. That's my observation anyway. 

Rgds,

Paul Gill wrote:
> 
> If you receive abusive email from anyone using a hotmail account, email the people at hotmail. They will track who is
> responsible. People like to think hotmail is untracible or anonymous, but it isnt. We did this last year and hotmail were
> quite helpful about it.

PS - whats with your settings in 4.02 mail ?  I gotta wrap the text to
read it and it wrecks the page layout formatting.

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Steve Small 
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