Please elaborate why hotmail users support spam?
I think the thought process goes something like this:
- Tom has seen a great deal of spam come from Hotmail addresses over the years.
- In Tom's mind, spam is one of the biggest, most important problems in the world today.
- Because Hotmail is still one of the hosts of choice for free email addresses for spammers, this necessarily means that Microsoft makes no real effort to stop them (because of #2), and thus this means that they must approve of this activity.
- Furthermore, anyone else who uses Hotmail must also approve of this activity, because if they were right-thinking people, they would obviously boycott such a purveyor of evil.
I think the important point there to keep in mind is #2. As far as Tom is concerned, spamming should be a capital offense. When one is that focused on a particular type of offense, it becomes easy to believe that not only
should everyone else share your view, but that everyone who is not actively working against that offense is a supporter of it who needs to be punished.
