Last week someone posted an advert for their site on my CASWELL guestbook. I
wrote a very pleasant, civil (yes, I can y'know!) letter to the 'offender'
and then got a pile of verbal abuse, mainly derogatory remarks about my
mother.
I forwarded this to HOTMAIL, where the 'abuser' was hosted, and as you can
see, they closed his account.
We don't have to put up with this stuff!
-----Original Message-----
From: policy(a)hotmail.com <policy(a)hotmail.com>
To: Mike Caswell <mike(a)caswellplating.com>
Date: Thursday, July 30, 1998 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: Abusive Message
Thank you for your message to Hotmail.
We have closed the account responsible for the email you reported. It is a
strict violation of the Hotmail Terms of Service (TOS) for our members to
send harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene,
or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature using our
service.
If you wish to view our rules and regulations, please go to our TOS at
http://www.hotmail.com/x/html/fm_tos.html
Visit the following ANTI-SPAM related Web sites for more information on
how to combat SPAM and what you can do about it.
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Complaint Addresses (GoodGuys|Unresponsive|Foe)
http://www-fofa.concordia.ca/spam/complaints.shtml
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Anchor Desk "Special Spam Fighting Edition"
http://www4.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_index_19970819.html
How to Get Rid of Junk Mail, and Telemarketers
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