Source : www.Activewin.com :
Microsoft has finally moved to try to limit the amount of spam bombarding Hotmail in-boxes. Following a campaign led by the Inquirer to expose MSN's failure to deal with Hotmail spammers, the company has announced that it will use anti-spam software developed by San Francisco-based Brightmail Inc to cut down the amount of spam plaguing Hotmail users.
As Inquirer readers are aware, 80 per cent of the 2 billion emails appearing in the 110 million Hotmail inboxes daily is unsolicited rubbish. The free service has become virtually unusable as, the 2Mb of space allocated to users quickly gest clogged up, at which point, MSN starts deleting mails. Brightmail says its Solution Suite will be deployed by Microsoft to filter spam at the incoming SMTP gateway, before it?s delivered to the Hotmail user?s inbox.