Comments on: Judge stops Brit from selling Hotmail lists

Microsoft wins case after arguing that a U.K. man selling e-mail addresses to spammers had hurt the company's goodwill as Hotmail's owner.

[timomy]

Where did he GET the lists?

Hmmm?

[WJeansonne]

Reopen the Tower of London and throw away the key.

These scumbags need to be drawn and quartered for all the grief, trouble and cost they cause for the average person and business.

And Microsoft needs to safeguard its email databases!

Will

[Ryo Hazuki]

Stop blaming Microsoft for all the world's bad things.

Microsoft doesn't need to safeguard its email databases (I mean that's not the issue here), *people* have to learn to use Bcc and clear email adresses when they forward an email.

Fil

[wbenton]

What about the bigger question?

>>>breached the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), a U.K. law that includes regulations designed to halt the sending of unsolicited e-mail.<<<

Would the judge have come up with the same conclusion even if Microsoft had not pushed the case?

Walt

[Ryo Hazuki]

Probably not.

That's why we should thank Microsoft (instead of ignorantly blaming it for everything bad that happens in the world).

[cathleen_44]

Good, but not good enough

This is great, I just wish more people would do the same...I get so much spam, I feel like I spend most of my time just deleting crap in my inbox. I try and be careful, but you never know where the spam is coming from...it seems like everytime I buy something or do ANYTHING online, I'm just giving my email address to thousands of people...I just started using this thing called Nyms, and it doesn't really stop the spam, but it does let me know where it's coming from and it will stop any future spam from that one source...pretty cool...