On 10/15/2018 11:00 AM, David E. Ross wrote:
I received spam with "From" and "Return-Path" header fields indicating
the same hotmail.com address. I saved the source file, showing all the
HTML mark-up and the header block. I sent an E-mail with a complaint to
containing the source file as an attachment and
citing the sender's IP address.

I got a bounce message from Microsoft that said my complaint E-mail
could not be delivered because of the following reason:
The recipient has exceeded their limit for the number of messages they can receive per hour.

Why would Microsoft put a limit on its own abuse-report E-mail address?
Does this not indicate Microsoft has a serious problem with being used
for spam?

Kinda like David said but...

I think it's like when we have a power outage and call the power company
around here. As soon as I give my street name, they stop me and say
they know about the outage. Indicating that I'm probably the 50th
person complaining. Of course this is a phone call and a person is
answering.

I can understand the flood of email from the world into Microsoft abuse
mail box. I can understand them wanting to limit it. There is only
so much you can read per hour.