Microsoft Sues Spammers

Microsoft has sued a group of porn spammers for sending millions of email spam to its Hotmail and MSN customers.

The lawsuit claims the spam mail "places a tremendous burden on Microsoft," and that the messages consume large amounts of storage on its computer systems making it difficult to fulfill it's customer's needs.

Apparently many of the unwanted messages are actually sent from Microsoft's own hotmail accounts - even though it has antispam policies in place to prohibit doing so.

The suite does not specify the spammers by name. Microsoft has chosen to fight the spammers in Los Angeles due to the frequency which spammers due business there.

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