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Some features of Windows Live Hotmail are:

• Improved spam protection. By clicking on the “mark as unsafe” link, customers automatically report the sender to junk e-mail filters and delete the message. The sender will be blocked from sending future e-mail and will receive notification that the address is not valid.
• Custom filters. Customers can organize their inbox by directing incoming messages to be stored in specific folders.
• Virus scanning of e-mail attachments. Every incoming e-mail message with an attachment is automatically scanned to help protect customers from viruses.

Benifits and Problems with Email

Benifits

Other then sending and receiving messages and pictures, email serves so many other purposes. The main function of email transfers written word with the speed of a telephone. It's a great way for small or large businesses to participate or monitor progress on a project. You can inform many people of the same thing featuring pictures and reports much easier and quicker than via a face-to-face meeting. You can make hundreds of people aware of business meetings or anything else with the click of the mouse. Email also has no time or place constraints. You can check, send and view emails anytime you need to. The main benefit of email is the low to no cost to use it.

Problems

It's totally insecure. Confidential business documents sent over email are not confidential. These documents can be read both inside and outside of your organization.It's too open. Mailboxes are filling with junk mail, and the situation is getting worse every month. Due to the general delivery design of email, this problem cannot be prevented, even with the best designed email filters.Email can be dangerous . Computer viruses are most commonly delivered through email because there is no certification mechanism for email senders. Delivery is not guaranteed. Just like postal mail, email may be delivered, or maybe not. Email is not real time There is too much delay to have an active conversation, which is why more and more people are turning to instant messaging solutions.

"South Lanarkshire staff challenge Gary Glitter sacking."

"The staff were sacked for distributing a joke e-mail about Gary Glitter Four former social work staff are claiming unfair dismissal after being sacked for distributing a joke e-mail of convicted paedophile Gary Glitter. Deborah Reilly, Angela Nelson, Anne Lang and Rosemary Boyle have raised an action against South Lanarkshire Council alleging their sacking was "disproportionate" to what they did. At least nine council workers were originally suspended over claims they made inappropriate use of the council's e-mail system, following an investigation in late 2008."

A special immigration court has ruled that a Pakistani student was leading a bomb plot in the UK - but can't be deported because of the risk to his safety. At the heart of the case was a series of e-mails that Abid Naseer sent to a contact in Pakistan. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission said this contact was an al-Qaeda operative.