Microsoft needs you to help fight spam.
We hate junk e-mail as much as you do. As part of our effort to fight junk e-mail, we're asking for a little help from our friends (that's you!).
If you sign up to help, here's what we'll do: Every once in a while, we will resend one of your e-mail messages and ask you to categorize it as either junk or not junk. That's it-one click and you're done!
This helps us fine-tune our junk e-mail filters and protect you better. The messages that we send are your real e-mail messages; they were addressed to you, and may already have been sent to you earlier.
This is a message I got from Microsoft's Live.com. Two things, though:
If you sign up to help, here's what we'll do: Every once in a while, we will resend one of your e-mail messages and ask you to categorize it as either junk or not junk. That's it-one click and you're done!
This helps us fine-tune our junk e-mail filters and protect you better. The messages that we send are your real e-mail messages; they were addressed to you, and may already have been sent to you earlier.
This is a message I got from Microsoft's Live.com. Two things, though:
- "The messages that we send are your real e-mail messages; they were addressed to you, and may already have been sent to you earlier." May have been sent earlier? If these are my real e-mails that they're resending to me, shouldn't they be using a word that's a little bit more sure of itself? Am I not receiving some of my e-mails?
- What the fuck have they been doing with the thousands of other messages that I've already marked "Junk?" Has it all been a futile gesture on my behalf, for the betterment of mankind vs. spamkind? Microsoft, um, yoursodumb.