Following is the disclaimer in an “Official Email” from Hotmail Member Services.
As a Hotmail member, you have received this e-mail to inform you of updates, changes to the Hotmail service, or special news and information from MSN. Our policy is to send e-mail messages only to announce such information, and we’ll continue to honor this policy. Free Hotmail users: If you do not wish to receive Hotmail member letters, you may close your Hotmail account.
Hmm.. that’s a nice way of saying - “Take it with the spam or fuck off”