[anti-abuse-wg] Microsoft New Abuse Policies

Hi All,

Today it is me, tomorrow it may be you? 

Microsoft has new abuse policies in terms of email abuse and it is
interesting insofar as it is mysterious

Which is perfectly fine, it is Microsoft's infrastructure and they may
do and decide whatever they want - But - it is important to understand
ABUSE in all it's forms.

I am saying that this Microsoft behavior is Abuse in itself as they
leveraged their monolopy in operating systems into an eventual email
dominance and their behavior is abuse.

Anyway, you will recall that I posted here about the AI at Microsoft, as
I (a human) took 20 minutes to complete their web form (and solve their
stupid capcha)  and the Microsoft response was so very quickly: "no"

Well, I escalated and escalated the "no we are not going to accept
relay from you, internationally from any @microsoft infrastructure" 

for an IP number and sender domains that are 100% clean and has, in
ten years, not even has a single abuse complaint from anywhere:

 http://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/5.9.29.165.html

I received the final Microsoft response this morning after many email
exchanges, and with different "people":

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Hello,          

As previously stated, your IP do not qualify for mitigation at this
time.  I do apologize, but I am unable to provide any details about
this situation since we do not have the liberty to discuss the nature
of the block.
At this point, I would suggest that you review and comply with
Outlook.com's technical standards. This information can be found at
https://postmaster.live.com/pm/postmaster.aspx
<https://postmaster.live.com/pm/postmaster.aspx> 

We regret that we are unable to provide any additional information or
assistance at this time.
Best regards,

Outlook.com Deliverability Support
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The staff are "not at liberty" i.e FREE and "at this point" 

They are not referring me to RFC as my emails comply with RFC, IETF and
all standards, so there is no 'technical' reason...
or to any abuse by myself (as that does not exist) instead I am being 
directed to copious amounts of "policy" where I have to work through pages 
of drivel with an end result of them still saying "no" and with a result of wasting my time.

Of course, as I already said: Microsoft can refuse to accept email from
anyone they choose and for any reason they choose.

So, there is nothing that I can do or say and it is what it is.
 
Andre