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...illegal sex by a man eight years her senior. The pair had corresponded frequently in the poorly policed realm of the Microsoft Network's Internet chat rooms. As David Hipperson pleaded guilty to gross indecency in court last week, software giant Microsoft was simultaneously announcing that it would close MSN chat rooms in most parts of the world, beginning Oct. 14. "We're pleased the prosecution has been successful," says Geoff Sutton, general manager of MSN Europe. "It's the perfect example of why we reached the decision we did." There's overwhelming evidence that unmonitored chat rooms serve...
Spoofed or otherwise, the spam that makes it to your In box is just the tip of the iceberg. At the four major e-mail providers--MSN (including Hotmail), Yahoo, EarthLink and AOL (which, like this magazine, is owned by AOL Time Warner)--between 40% and 70% of all incoming mail is killed upon arrival at their mail servers. But this has spawned a kind of spam arms race: the more mail is blocked, the more spammers send, in hopes that some will get through. As a result, the performance of the mail servers is starting to suffer. Two months...
...mail providers are trying to tap into a little of that anger by enlisting the help of aggrieved users. REPORT SPAM buttons now adorn all e-mails in AOL, EarthLink and MSN software, and AOL alone receives 9 million reports a day. That may not be enough to stop the Carmacks of the world, but anything that saves us from a few more cable-descrambler ads can't be all bad. --With reporting by Kathie Klarreich/Miami, Sean Scully/Los Angeles, Eric Roston/Washington, Simon Crittle/New York and Noah Isackson/Chicago
...MSN For subscribers, MSN's Version 8 provides system-wide filters that are smart enough to intercept a fair percentage of incoming junk mail before it lands in your In box. The junk is deposited into a separate folder from which you can retrieve messages that shouldn't have been blocked. True to its geeky heritage, Microsoft provides tools for custom filtering that offer users more flexibility than AOL's mail controls, though AOL is busy playing catch...
...HOTMAIL The filters built in to MSN's free mail service are easy to manage and work reasonably well. Using a simple menu, you set the threshold from moderate to exclusive. The highest level accepts email only from people listed in your address book or from domains you put on your safe list (newsletters you subscribe to, websites you've shopped at, etc.). You can have spam deleted immediately, but if you've chosen the most aggressive filtering option, you'll probably want to set up a junk-mail folder that you can scan for false positives (then retrieve them...