on 250110 at 09:44 i received a message with the subject line “Your Microsoft order on January 10, 2025”.

i KNOW FOR A FACT that i did NOT make an order from micro$leaze on that date, or at any other time for the past 25 years, which lead me to one, inescapable conclusion:

THIS IS SPAM!

not only that, but, because of the fact that i DO NOT ALLOW my email client to render HTML, i could perceive, right away, that this was a not-very-well-disguised attempt to trick, or con an ignorant user out of money, at the very least (the URIs were all redirects from azure.com and microsoft.com to somewhere that is very defintely NOT associated with microsoft), and, very likely for the extremely gullible, credit card and/or other personally identifiable information, as well.

so, i jumped through my standard spam-reporting hoops, and determined that the message had, indeed, come from micro$hit.

it’s not a tremendous surprise, but, still, i KNOW FOR AN UNDISPUTED FACT that i did NOT make an order from micro$leaze, so i proceded to send a report to [email protected]

this afternoon, at 14:16, i got a return receipt from [email protected] — yes, you can still get return receipts, although you have to use an email client that supports them, which is getting more and more rare in these days of web-based, cloud-based email — which said:

Your message

To: MS Online Customer Service (abuse)
Subject: [EXTERNAL] ABUSE VIOLATION: Your Microsoft order on January 10, 2025
Sent: Friday, 10 January 2025 10:02:54 (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

was deleted without being read on Saturday, 18 January 2025 14:16:53 (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada).

as you may or may not recall, i have been going back and forth LITERALLY FOR YEARS with micro$lop regarding my ability (or, to put it more accurately, my INABILITY) to send email to micro$lump customers. they LITERALLY refuse to tell me why, but they have been blocking the DEDICATED IP ADDRESS i have had, from which ONLY me and moe send email, for ≈25 years, with infuriating gaps (when i complain about it) that last anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months. the only even close to “reason” i have been able to get out of them is “because we can”. 😒

SO what i learn from this, is:

it is NOT okay for me to send email to micro$hit, because it MIGHT BE spam, and they will take active and aggressive steps to block it.

however, when i RECEIVE spam FROM micro$hit, they don’t even look at my report.

🤬🤬🤬🤬