Other hotmail users getting spammed?
I'll be the first to admit hotmail's junk filter has never been great but in the last few days it's been hopeless - receiving 4 or 5 emails a day in my "focused" inbox that are 100% obviously junk just from looking at the subject line (full of extra punctuation characters etc.). Anyone else seeing the same? I'd even pay to keep my hotmail account but with better junk filtering but it doesn't seem there's such an option...
I do not see an uptick to hotmail addresses on my fake open relay honeypots. Could it be they adjusted their global filters recently or that your address ended up in more spammer lists?
Death by a thousand spams? ... a.k.a. Kill a service by making it undesirable?