Hi:

I am one of the millions of hotmail users. I have activated the exclusive junk mail filter which means that the only emails getting to my inbox are people in my contact list.
Today an email from:
[email protected]

appeared in my inbox with the following message:

This offer was sent on behalf of:
Dollar Machine
1117 Queen Street West # 780
Toronto, ON, CA
M6J 1J0


I am aware that hotmail is spammers paradise, but still how did that get through the filters? Is it a bug? or something else? I guess that even this exclusive filter is not perfect. Another problem with this filter is that supposedly mails not from your contacts go directly to the junk folder, its weird but whats happening is that if you are not in my contacts your email won't even reach the junk folder. I tested this opening another account and emailing myself without having the new address in my contacts and no messages were received at all.
Please don't reply saying that since its a free service I should expect those faults. The purpose of this is just to know why is this happening, I'm not bothered by it I'm just curious.

cheers,
J