[oclug] Evil Empire???

[Seung-woo Nam]

If I understand correctly, Microsoft can only claim the ownership of the data
their users send through the hotmail server. If that's the case, how could it
do any harm to this mailing list?

Seung-woo Nam

John Elliott wrote:

> On Wednesday 04 April 2001 17:49, Seung-woo Nam wrote:
> > Who decides whether it's wanted or not? If you don't want to read it, you
> > can always ignore it, right?
> > Unless everyone on the list agrees that any signatures containing company
> > names be banned, there's no reason to block yahoo or hotmail addresses.
> >
> Actually there may well be a good reason to block hotmail addresses as it
> would apprear based on the Microsoft Passport terms of use they effectively
> claim ownership of anything that you transmit through their service.
>
> Check out the "hotmail fiasco" post from  Chris Herrnberger.