Microsoft won case against Hotmail spammer

Paul Fox, whose e-mail messages were intended to direct traffic toward his pornographic download site, was this week forced by a court order to pay Microsoft 45,000 pounds, or $84,177, for breaching the terms and conditions of its free Hotmail service. Those terms explicitly prohibit the delivery of spam to its customers.

I cannot get enough of these stories! $84K may be pennies to Microsoft, but that no doubt sets the spammer back quite a bit. Even with all of the spammer cases seen lately, I personally haven’t seen a decline to my inbox of any sort. So, we need more of this… a lot more.