Within minutes of installing Messenger for the first time
I am beseiged with unsavoury e-mails - when I had very few
unsolicited ones ever before.

Microsoft's security must be non-existent - no other
explanation works. But I suppose I should have expected
that.

Nonetheless extremely disappointing. I guess they'll try
and sell me a SPAM filter next and present that
as "caring".

Yuk.

Re: SPAM by Jonathan

Jonathan
Sun Nov 16 17:02:54 CST 2003

Greetings Martin,

Microsoft does NOT under any circumstance give out Passport e-mail addresses unless you
explicitly state to (at a participating .NET Passport site). See here:
http://www.passport.net/Consumer/PrivacyPolicy.asp#General

As well, no "spam"er can be licensed as a .NET Passport site, so this is impossible.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com


"Martin" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:01f201c3ac95$3cf24200$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Within minutes of installing Messenger for the first time
> I am beseiged with unsavoury e-mails - when I had very few
> unsolicited ones ever before.
>
> Microsoft's security must be non-existent - no other
> explanation works. But I suppose I should have expected
> that.
>
> Nonetheless extremely disappointing. I guess they'll try
> and sell me a SPAM filter next and present that
> as "caring".
>
> Yuk.