A bold assertion? Not really so bold. Look at this screenshot of the opening page when I logged into Hotmail today:
It clearly shows a typical Viagra spam as being from one of my contacts. I assure you, I do not subscribe to Viagra spam, nor do I know any Viagra spammers (I do know someone who takes Viagra, doesn’t have impotence and buys it off an old man who does - which ironically is more illegal than sending spam!).
This isn’t the first example of blatant spam coming as from "one of my contacts". This has been happening to me a bit. Microsoft must have deals with these spammers so their messages get pride of place on Hotmail accounts. Nasty. I hope their Australian office gets hit with the full extent of the law.
In other news, I found out that I had $4.33 left on my iTunes account, so I downloaded Mylene Farmer’s song "Beyond My Control", and her duet with Moby "Slipping Away". I don’t want to give the DRM-mongers $4 for free! But I still feel guilty, especially since I want to get more music cards to download some of Mylene’s other albums. I think buying DRM’ed tracks is okay as long as you de-DRM them and distribute them to at least 5 other people :-) I have distributed my Mylene albums to one other person - anyone out there want some MP3s?
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