Re: OE/Hotmail socket error 12029

The assumption with removing OE/OL access is that those using OE/OL with new
free accounts were the source of the spam. Now since, existing accounts were
grandfathered and if in current use not subject to expiration via the 30/90
day rule then that reasoning would not hold.
Which raises the next question, 'Who did MSn really cut-off to reduce spam?'
It would stand to reason that the only impact was on those who wanted new
accounts that did not have them at the time of the policy change. Which
brings me back to something more concrete question, was it really about spam
or about web site usage/hits and advertising penetration.
..winston



"N. Miller" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:09:38 +0900, Shannon Jacobs wrote:
:
: > Is Microsoft really so hard up for computing resources? Or maybe they've
: > just been overwhelmed by the spam?
:
: I would vote for the possibility of some kind of spam related issues. The
: reason that MSN cut off access to free Hotmail accounts with MSOE (with a
: nod to the known exceptions) was MSN's apparent inability to keep spammers
: from abusing their WebDAV mail pickup servers. The spammers may simply be
: unwilling to give up, preferring to disrupt the service rather than to
: accept that the service has cut them off.
:
: That is just a WAG, though; I have no first hand knowledge of how those
: WebDAV pickup servers work, or how any problems with them would impact the
: HTTPMail access servers.
:
: --
: Norman
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