== How Hotmail is doing on the spam front

So, how is Hotmail doing with its [[spam|HotmailSpamProblem]]
[[problems|HotmailOtherSpamProblem]]? This very issue has come up in
news.admin.net-abuse.email recently, so let's take a look and see.

This week we accepted exactly one email from Hotmail, which may or may
not have been spam.

Also this week, we refused 84 messages from Hotmail that came from
non-Hotmail email addresses, mostly msn.com but including domains like
'ukwiningnotice.com', 'usm2005lot.net', and 'infonotification.com'.
Msn.com users rejected included ones called
((british_lotterywinnings)) and ((vhfprizecenter1)). (For some reason,
posing as UK lotteries seems popular with the Hotmail-hosted people
who spam us.)

This week we also rejected 15 Hotmail messages because they came from
bad areas of the network; 8 from SBL-listed IP addresses, 4 from
CBL-listed ones, and 3 because they were from bad network areas.  Two
IP addresses tried to send multiple emails through Hotmail:

* 213.185.106.3, a CBL-listed Nigerian IP address, sent three; two
  from _apavel1_ and one from _jamesangulu_
* 84.41.216.20,
  [[SBL-listed|http://www.spamhaus.org/SBL/sbl.lasso?query=SBL28316]]
  since June 25th, sent two; one from _aliwaheed3_ and one from
  _aliwaheed12_.

Thus, this week Hotmail is 99% unwanted email and at most 1% email we
actually wanted. Not exactly a good ratio;
[[Vernon Schryver's remark|WordsForWebmailProviders]]
definitely applies.

(Past summaries of Hotmail.com spam can also be found in
SpammerRoundupI.)