04th Aug 2007
The Register and Hotmail - a love/hate relationship
The Register, noted UK IT reporters, have fired a shot across Hotmail’s bow by criticising their spam protection techniques. Apparently Hotmail’s spam filtering system does not reach their high standards. With the data they present, it’s clear to see why they feel that way: Hotmail’s “contact list” system allows approved senders to reach Hotmail accounts with impunity, and somehow a Hotmail account associated with The Register was judged to have a “viagra.com” email on its contact list. Needless to say, this seems to be a major error in Hotmail’s spam filters.
However, there is another side to the story. Spam white listing is also important to Hotmail’s business customers, so they cannot be seen to be too aggressive with all forms of e mail marketing. It’s important for them to find a balance, but the current spam blocker operated by Microsoft seems to be woefully insufficient for most users.
One of web mail’s strengths is that such solutions are usually built-in, as is the case with Google Mail spam filtering and Yahoo spam blockers, but Hotmail, left on its own, seems to be ineffectual at getting rid of spam. With so much choice in the webmail market, one has to wonder if Hotmail is currently worth it.
Types Of Computer Viruses
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting