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Thursday, June 23, 2005

Tech Rant: More Microsoft Foot-Shooting

Does anybody think this will solve the spam problem? Or is an anti-spam "solution" that requires people to register in order to send e-mail not a little draconian, not to mention another corporate grab for mindspace in a marketplace Microsoft is losing badly?

If Microsoft requires Sender ID in order to accept e-mail, I know what answer I'll choose: I just won't correspond with anyone at hotmail.com. Considering there are far better ways of dealing with spam that do not require such annoyances, Microsoft, which always views every problem as a marketing and sales opportunity, will find themselves on the outside looking in, and their Hotmail customers isolated.

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I don't think it will be a problem - I can't remember the last time I corresponded with someone at a Hotmail address. They've all fled to Gmail.
 
Yeah, essentially that's where I think it's headed, too. MS has just done "wonders" for their Hotmail property, and I can only imagine what their user base is like. Their purchase of Hotmail was always a puzzlement to me.
 

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