[SC-Help] Re: hotmail/msn, gmail, et.al.

[Doug]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in 
news:cs1uga$o4k$1 at news.spamcop.net:

> Aviatrix wrote:
>> Doug wrote:
> 
>>> complaint to yahoo each time I see a domain registered with a yahoo
>>> address. I had read in one of the ng that such usage violates
>>> yahoo's TOS.
> 
>> Why are you doing this? How do you think it will help any cause?
> 
> The idea would be, if it were true, that /if/ yahoo, hotmail/msn, gmail
> had a policy against usage of their /free/ accounts 'commercially';  and
> /if/ the account in question /were/ free, which isn't automatic just
> because something is a yahoo or hotmail;  and /if/ the provider
> terminated the account because the use of the free account was for a
> commercial purpose ie as a 'business' to register the domain name;  and
> /if/ the domainname registration email address were lost;  /then/ the
> domainname registration wouldn't be 'any good', which would/could lead
> to loss of the domainname registration.  That would be part of a
> strategy for an attack on the domainname registration.
> 
> In support of that strategy, some have reported that hotmail, which is
> sometimes pretty quick on the trigger against complaints when properly
> addressed and documented, has terminated a hotmail account which
> facilitated the reporter eventually terminating a domainname
> registration.
> 
> In light of all of my wherefores and whereas/es and if then/s and
> therefores above, you can see that there is a tenuous chain between such
> a notification and something actually happening, along with some fuzzy
> information in the various TOSes and ambiguity of whether an account is
> free or not.  I just looked at gmail's, and it wasn't very convincing to
> me that the strategy would likely bear fruit on a TOS basis.
> 

That's my intended line of attack. Go after the domain reg for any spambag 
who uses a yahoo address in his registration. I have LARTed CN & KR hosted 
domains [as have everyone else] to no real end. If going after the domain 
reg helps by taking down even ONE spammer, then I'd feel like I did 
something constructive. Right now I just burn SC fuel and nothing happens.

What I'm looking for is any "good" [relative use] reporting addresses for 
hotmail/msn, and/or gmail.

TIA

-- 
Doug Goodwin
 YMMV

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
-- Salvor Hardin