Microsoft fires new antispam artillery
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Microsoft unveiled on Thursday antispam tools for its MSN and Hotmail services and said its overall efforts have blocked 2.4 billion spam e-mail messages each day. The Redmond, Wash., company's announcement reflects how controlling unsolicited commercial e-mail is becoming a competitive advantage for online service providers like MSN, America Online, EarthLink and Yahoo. All the services have a variety of antispam technologies and practices. Last week, AOL said it had blocked 2 billion spam messages in a single day.