Why is it that Microsoft is taking it into their hands to rid the internet of spam?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4137352.stm

Also - "As a result of joint lawsuits filed in 2003 by Microsoft and New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer, Mr Richter pledged he would now only send spam e-mails to people who had confirmed they were willing to receive them."

If people want mail, then it's not spam, is it?

"US software giant Microsoft has won a $7m"

Anyway, this can't be a bad thing. It's good to see a company who has the power to deal with spam at least attempting to.

I assumed if any company was to be related to taking down spammers it would be a gun company.

Eh...I don't have a problem with spam anymore.

Hypocrites. This coming from the same company that accepted a bribe from Gator to take it off its list of adware in their spyware scanning program.

Old news about them being hypocrites, though.

It's legitmate business to do stuff like that, depsite what most people think.

Oh I know it's good business. But that doesn't make me hate them any less for it.