after much ado, i get this email when i lodged a Problem Report:
We have completed reviewing the IP(s) you submitted. The following table contains the results of our investigation.
Conditionally mitigated
128.199.200.202
Our investigation has determined that the above IP(s) qualify for conditional mitigation. These IP(s) have been unblocked, but may be subject to low daily email limits until they have established a good reputation.
Please note that mitigating this issue does not guarantee that your email will be delivered to a user’s inbox.
Ongoing complaints from users will result in removal of the mitigation.
Mitigation may take 24 - 48 hours to replicate completely throughout our system.
YAY ! we can send emails to Hotmail again ...