>Hmmmm....
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3697286.stm


Staying < cough > on-topic < cough > and from the BBC article, because of Spam abuse:

"Due to the magnitude of this problem, MSN has made the tough decision to make this protocol (and therefore Outlook/Outlook Express functionality for Hotmail) a subscription-only feature"

Lets face it the Spam abuse can only be because of people sending Spam not receiving it. I use http://mail.Yahoo.Com and they have some fairly simple and I imagine very effective techniques to stop people sending Spam - previously they were using captchas but now things are even more simple, one can only send e-mail to a maximum of 100 recipients in any 60 minute period.

Obviously M.$. (aka Hotmail) are not even bright enough in this case to copy someone else’s innovation (sic), and their best solution was to take a massively deceived and captive audience and extort money from them.

And to the UT management - the periods in M.$. above are to stop my expression of distaste for M.$. being hidden from people that auto expand acronyms. I deeply resent UT censorship.

M.$ == Filth