Hotmail useless?

Well, I've had a hotmail address for a couple of years now and it's never had a single spam sent to it. Why? because I'm careful who I give the address to.

Hotmail users whining about the spam they receive and/or the ham they never see is one thing. What I would like to see is Hotmail giving a rat's derrière about the humungous amounts of spam their users *send*. Furthermore, if you report the spam to (what passes for) Hotmail's abuse desk, you get an auto-ack in reply basically saying that it wasn't them and explaining how to make adjustments in Outlook.

WTF?

I can read headers as well as anyone out there (and obviously better than a Hotmail abuse monkey) and I don't let *ANY* Microsoft garbageware get anywhere near any of my machines, not even the O/S is from Microsoft.

The auto-ack is probably generated by a ’bot written by Microsoft (which would explain why it doesn't work correctly) designed specifically to blow the complainant off and thus aid and abet the spammers.