At what point do I blacklist all email from hotmail.com?

[darxus]

I've gotten 5 spams verified (by SPF) from hotmail in the last 6 days. I reported the first 4. Since November 1 I've only gotten legit email from one hotmail account. Email I would not have minded missing. Hotmail is now a significant source of spam my filters don't catch. At what point to I blacklist all email from hotmail?

Do any legitimate users still use hotmail?

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I have a hotmail that I only use for online shopping.

[coraline]

my best friend still only uses hotmail. it's irritating.

[beowabbit]

If you mean you yourself, then whenever you feel like it.

If you’re administering a mail server for other users, then you probably want to take other opinions into account.

If you want actual data to help make a decision, maybe you could take all the hotmail addresses from your addressbook and see how many of them are still valid and get a response.

(I've only got 20 in my addressbook and most of them are old, but one is my sister. In fact, I had to decrease the score of a Hotmail-specific SpamAssassin score in order to see mail from her.)

[kragar00.livejournal.com]

I still use hotmail and my parents were married when I was born, so I'm legitimate. Granted, I don't email you, but that's not what you asked...

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

tons of legitimate users still use hotmail

i get more spam from yahoo, but a few people i know are in there too...

mostly the filters are dealing quite well

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[milktree.livejournal.com]

You're saying that less than one spam a day is a big enough problem to make it worth potentially dropping all email from one provider?

[darxus.livejournal.com]

One spam a day making it through all my spam filtering. I may be about to fix that.

[morbidiqua.livejournal.com]

Pat_man_ta uses hotmail just because it has been his email address for so many years. I don't even know if you know him though.

[tech-charles.livejournal.com]

I run several community sites where maybe 40% of the members registered with a hotmail address, (and are real people).

In my experience, it's hotmail users who get the worst deal of all. Admins who think they might not be real, over-zealous spam filters killing registration e-mails, and probably not confident enough to approach the support team for help.

Imagine having trouble registering for a website and being told to get a new e-mail address and a new browser. The cost might not matter, but what about learning how to use it?

Perhaps in ten years time we'll be alienated for still using LJ or still using e-mail...