] Microsoft has reduced the number of e-mail messages
] Hotmail users can send each day to 100 in an effort to
] prevent spammers from using the service to send spam.
]
] The cap, put in place earlier this month, only applies to
] users of the company's free Hotmail e-mail service, and
] not to MSN 8 subscribers or those who pay for MSN Extra
] Storage, a Microsoft spokeswoman said Tuesday.

InfoWorld: Microsoft caps Hotmail to prevent spamming: March 25, 2003: By Scarlet Pruitt: Applications