Dumb idea of the week

Om Malik, Monday, March 24, 2003 at 11:03 AM PT Comments (0)

This week’s award goes to none other than Microsoft’s Hotmail service. Hotmail subscribers are now limited to sending only 100 messages a day “in an effort to prevent spammers from using Hotmail to spread spam,” said Lisa Gurry, MSN lead product manager in an interview with News.com. This is what I call, how to destroy the customer base you have. Think about what stupid things Netscape did - this is pretty close in terms of stupidity.

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