05-20-2002, 07:03 AM
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Loved the Python bits Ed, How'd you do that wav thing? Spam Spam Spam Spam, Spam Spam Spam Spam, Lovely Spam wonderful Spam...  Any truth to the rumor that the originator of the word spam for unsolicited e-mail was a Pythonite?
Don't Panic!
Bobby
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05-20-2002, 11:22 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 27
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Pony99 - I'm with you on this - I get so much spam in my hotmail every day (nearly 100 over a weekend), but see this as more of a feature of Passport.
All these choices do is let other sites use your Hotmail info rather than you having to complete a separate registration. The information is shared when you sign-in at other sites - you'd have to give them your name and an email address to sign up anyway.
As for Ed's idea of hotmail sending the info out in an email - how could we distinguish it from all the other spam we get in our accounts? ;-)
Ian G
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05-20-2002, 12:29 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by Don't Panic!
Loved the Python bits Ed, How'd you do that wav thing? Spam Spam Spam Spam, Spam Spam Spam Spam, Lovely Spam wonderful Spam... Any truth to the rumor that the originator of the word spam for unsolicited e-mail was a Pythonite? |
Google is a wonderful thing. :lol:
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Originally Posted by IanG
Pony99 - I'm with you on this - I get so much spam in my hotmail every day (nearly 100 over a weekend), but see this as more of a feature of Passport.
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As far as I know, you cannot log into hotmail without a passport. I too think it is more closely related to Passport, but since your email address in passport is likely, though not in all cases, your hotmail account, this is where the spam goes.
I feel sorry for those that used their real email account with passport. They get spammed there. 
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05-20-2002, 03:10 PM
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Swami
Join Date: May 2004
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I Don't See Much Spam via Passport
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
I feel sorry for those that used their real email account with passport. They get spammed there.
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I use my "real" E-mail account with Passport (actually my E-mail forwarding account which forwards everything to my real E-mail address), and I haven't noticed any real spam increases. I don't even have a Hotmail account.
I never used Passport for much, though, except occasionally visiting an MSN user group and maybe once or twice on eCommerce sites. Now, I have to use Passport to use Microsoft Money 2002, but I don't think I get any spam through that.
I may get about 10 spams per day (unless this one idiot "John" spams me -- he sends 12 or more pieces of identical crap at a time). Typically, I get one or two porno site spams, one or two mortgage ads, a government grant eBook ad, one or two computer ads (WinFix, Internet Detective), and one or two online pharmacy ads. Throw in an occasional ads for get-rich-quick schemes, dentists, online casinos or E-mail address lists, and that's my spam.
It sucks, but I have a pretty decent filter system, including filtering anything that doesn't include my E-mail address in the To: or Cc: fields.
Steve
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05-20-2002, 05:10 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
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can't find this on my account
Okay, don't know why... maybe because I use MSN as my back-up dial-up; but I don't have a Personal Profile to choose from. guess I have to use their special MSN dialer to change that. Anyone know?
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05-20-2002, 08:43 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 48
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Re: can't find this on my account
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Okay, don't know why... maybe because I use MSN as my back-up dial-up; but I don't have a Personal Profile to choose from. guess I have to use their special MSN dialer to change that. Anyone know?
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MSNIA Subscribers, MSN Explorer users, or 'free' users who have an account with an @msn.com extension do not have a personal profile on MSN Hotmail. Your .NET Passport Profile resides @ the .NET Passport site.
Visit https://register.passport.com/editprof.srf?lc=1033 to update your .NET Passport Profile.
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05-20-2002, 10:13 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2002
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HEH...What reputation?
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LOL. :lol: What reputation? You mean the reputation for strong-arming everyone they do business with to keep them from using competitor software? Or the reputation for creating software products that have more security holes then a drunk rent-a-copy protecting a mall. Or how about MS reputation for shoddily implementing industry standards with their own VERSION of it. This is just another feather in the cap of the MS juggernaut. Doesn't matter what they do the windows machine will continue to roll on.
PS- I use Hotmail as a standard placeholder for my real e-mail address when joining forums and such but even then I get more junk e-mail then humanly imaginable. (100+ per day) Consequently my account is filled to its max limit of e-mail within 1-2 days time. I'm just about ready to start forwarding all these e-mail onto Hotmail's customer service. Enjoy guys.
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05-21-2002, 04:50 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Mar 2007
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I would just like to say that this is my second time appearing in this thread. Spam Spam Spam Spam, Spam Spam Spam Spam, Lovely Spam wonderful Spam... :lol:
Don't Panic!
Bobby
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05-21-2002, 07:49 AM
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None of those boxes were checked in my Hotmail account, and I don't remember ever unchecking them. I've had that account for several years.
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