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Moogie
06-23-2004, 05:44 PM
Another reason to ditch Hotmail? <br><br><table width="90%" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#63635A" bgcolor="#E7E7E2" align="center"><tr><td style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;">By Tim Richardson<br>Published Wednesday 23rd June 2004 15:05 GMT<br>Hotmail has been caught closing down email accounts accused of spamming without carrying out proper checks first.<br><br>An investigation by Israeli news site NRG Maariv found that all it takes to close down a hotmail account is a report - be it true or not - to Hotmail's abuse team that a Hotmail account has been used for spam.<br><br>Even if the accounts had not been used to send spam, within 24 hours, those accounts had been shut down without the account holder being notified.<br></td></tr></table><br><br>Take a look <a href="http://www.theregister.com/2004/06/23/hotmail_spam/"><u>HERE</u></a> and see what you think.<br>