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

[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.)