Hotmail is now... 5.0.0 Service unavailable

[jayjwa]

As much as MSN/Hotmail whatever-you-want-to-call-it collected Spam, the
*one* thing that was nice about them was that they at least accepted mail
from any place. Sure you got Spam, but you also got your email. Now
Hotmail has morphed into a beast called "Windows Live"
(something-or-another). I tried to reply to a friend today and got this
shot back immediately:

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mx2.hotmail.com.:
>>> MAIL From:<jay...@dontspam.me> SIZE=3483
<<< 550 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons.

Microsoft has determined that e-mail or other activity originating from
your IP appears to violate Microsoft's Anti-Spam Policy and/or the Terms
of Use for Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail service. The likely cause is
a compromised or virus infected server/personal computer. To prevent
further inappropriate use of Microsoft's property and services, Windows
Live Hotmail has blocked communication from your IP to our inbound mail
servers. To begin proactive monitoring of an IP range using Windows Live
Hotmail data, please go to http://postmaster.hotmail.com/snds to access
the Smart Network Data Services (SNDS).

554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

[ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ]

Reporting-MTA: dns; atr2.ath.cx
Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost
Arrival-Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 20:02:05 -0400

Final-Recipient: RFC822; nicci...@hotmail.com Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550

Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. Microsoft has
determined that e-mail or other activity originating from your IP appears
to violate Microsoft's Anti-Spam Policy and/or the Terms of Use for
Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail service. The likely cause is a
compromised or virus infected server/personal computer. To prevent further
inappropriate use of Microsoft's property and services, Windows Live
Hotmail has blocked communication from your IP to our inbound mail
servers. To begin proactive monitoring of an IP range using Windows Live
Hotmail data, please go to http://postmaster.hotmail.com/snds to access
the Smart Network Data Services (SNDS).

Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 20:02:07 -0400

Well, well. Going to the URL (http://postmaster.hotmail.com/snds) spins
Firefox in circles as I got kicked from live.com to passport.net to msn to
hotmail and back again and again and again. It's done via
Javascript, so you can't hit "stop" button in the browser. The
only way I got it to stop was quickly typing "Broken!" after one
of the equal signs in the URL, at which point it kicked me back
to passport.net to "login" again. "Smart Network" service? How ironic.
SNDS = Stupid Network Dipstick Server

Microsoft strikes again.

Gotta love this too:

"The likely cause is a compromised or virus infected server/personal
computer."

Sorry, no Windows here, only Linux. The "likely cause" is a spam policy
that off-loads the problem onto innocent users (think RBL/Spamhaus style).

Oh yeah, upgrade to "Windows Live" or not, my Hotmail mailbox _still_ has
over 90% Spam in it, plus copies of viruses that are years old. Only now
the user can't access his own box. Maybe I should ask the spammers to get
my mail in...Please?

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[** America, the police state **]
Whoooose! What's that noise? Why, it's US citizen's
rights, going down the toilet with Bush flushing.
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/08/wiretap
http://www.hermes-press.com/police_state.htm