SPAMIS and strange e-mail

Hi!

Today I received this e-mail:
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From: xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx]

Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 1:35 AM

To: xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx

Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Anaylists Find New Microsoft Office 12 a Waste

of Money



Attention Business Owner:

ANALYSTS FIND NEW [ Microsoft Office 12 ] TO BE AN UNNEEDED PURCHASE

[ Extremely Complicated ] TO RE-LEARN AND SUGGEST KEEPING OLD VERSION.

September, 20th, 2005 - 4:00AM PDT

By Ina Fried / Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Unfortunately, the company was a little too successful at making

its innovations unobtrusive. In user testing, Microsoft found that

nine out of every 10 features that customers wanted to see added to

Office were already in the program. "They simply don't know it's

there," Chris Capossela, a Microsoft vice president, told a developer

crowd last week. "It's just too hard to find it."

"Some very small percentage of people are going to react overwhelmingly

negative," Sinofsky said in an interview. "I'm prepared for that."

But, he warned, Microsoft may still face a tough sell. "Microsoft has

to convince (corporate customers) not only that the new version is

better, but also that there is not a significant amount of retraining

that is going to be required for users."

FULL ARTICLE AT: http://news.com.com/Office+12+makeover+takes+on+feature+creep/2100-1012_3-5873597.html?tag=st.num

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MICROSOFT: Self-Admitted World's Largest & Greatest Spammer

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" I'm with one of the greatest, most hated institutional

"spammers" around. We are a spamhouse. Doesn't matter

that we're Microsoft. Our legitimate, unsolicited email

is still just spam. "

- Mike Lyman

- MICROSOFT HEAD EMAIL ABUSE ADMINISTRATOR

ABOVE STATEMENT ARCHIVED & COMMENTED ON AT:

http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?S1=spam-l&X=-

1. Under Search for type: "We are a spamhaus."

2. Under Search for type: "most hated institutional"

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" Businesses ought to be able to send unsolicited e-mail to

people even if they are unsure if they have a pre-existing

business relationship with them. "

- Ryan Hamlin

- MICROSOFT CHIEF COUNSEL - August 22nd, 2005

ABOVE STATEMENT ARCHIVED & COMMENTED ON AT:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3384447a28,00.html

http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/08/22/1717258.shtml?tid=111&tid=109

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- [ Public Service Announcement Brought To You By S P A M I S ]

- [ Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam ]

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[ S P A M I S NOTIFICATION ]:

Thanks to Individual and Server Contributions, S P A M I S is Now

"FULLY READY" to Begin Increasing Microsoft Public Service

Announcement Emails to 20 Times the Amount of Internet Email

Users by 25 Times the Current Sending Rate & Speed When a

Certain Activity Transpires to "ANY" Past, Present or Future

S P A M I S Member(s) and/or "ANY" S P A M I S Affiliate(s).

[ CURRENTLY IN WAITING FOR THIS ACTIVITY TO TRANSPIRE TO BEGIN ]

[ S P A M I S / PO Box 1259 , Seattle , WA 98101 - USA ]

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It was sent from by e-mail address to my e-mail address. Obviously SPAM or something? How do I prevent this from happening and are other people getting this e-mail with my address attached to it? Help!

Thanks!