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Leebert writes:

Citing a Canadian anti-spam law, Microsoft last week announced that it would discontinue its security bulletin e-mail lists. From the e-mail: "In lieu of email notifications, you can subscribe to one or more of the RSS feeds described on the Security TechCenter website". Legal experts said the decision was unnecessary, as there were specific provisions in the legislation to take such email into account.

However, in an apparent reversal of its decision, Microsoft now says it will be re-starting its security notifications via email early next month. From a Microsoft's spokesperson: "On June 27, 2014, Microsoft notified customers that we were suspending Microsoft Security Notifications due to changing governmental policies concerning the issuance of automated electronic messaging. We have reviewed our processes and will resume these security notifications with our monthly Advanced Notification Service (ANS) on July 3, 2014."

Perhaps it was a case of Microsoft not reading the small print, or even the large print.