Seems that each day, my Hotmail account is increasingly useless. I think the signal-to-noise ratio is falling below 1:10—less than one useful E-mail message for ten pieces of spam. In related news, I received my first piece of spam to one of my vtluu.net E-mail addresses this week; specifically the one I use for eBay transactions.

I think I may start using temporary mail addresses for dealing with eBay and the like… As for my Hotmail account, I’ll probably stop using it entirely. A few weeks ago, they started imposing a 2MB limit for free accounts, whereupon exceeding that amount of messages in one’s mailbox would cause one’s account to stop receiving mail messages. I verified this was an easy way to screw over any Hotmail member of your choosing, simply by sending them enough mail to fill their mailboxes.