Hotmail Fighting Spam
By spiderman05
@spiderman05 (851)
Canada
May 7, 2007 11:59am CST
I was happily surprised today when I tried to send a message to a friend using my hotmail account. Indeed, word verification has been added to hotmail service in order to avoid spam. Basically, hotmail will ask you to retype some randomly generated characters whenever you wanted to send a message. As spamming software is not able to recognize those characters, this will lessen to a great extent the spam phenomenon that we witness in our hotmail accounts. So, bravo hotmail for this new feature.
2 responses
@spiderman05 (851)
• Canada
10 May 07
I think that regardless of the program used by the sender, word verification is required if the receiver is using hotmail. If this is not the case, then I agree that this measure will be just a nuisance to legitimate users and will not prevent the bad guys from spamming others.
@milott (2646)
• India
7 May 07
Of course, it is indeed a good feature but it is creating a time issue with the genuine users like us who had to shed some extra time on that word verification process which is often times typed wrong because of the way it was depicted in that picture and other issues. Microsoft should have done this spam protection behind the scenes without affecting its users. Anyway we should appreciate them on this initiative but hope they will come up with new way to tackle it.
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@spiderman05 (851)
• Canada
8 May 07
I agree with you that this feature is a bit inconvenient for users. I actually mistyped the characters too and had to go for a second trial. On the other hand, it is a well known fact that security comes at a price and in this feature the price is user convenience.
