New Spam Zombies Use ISPs' Mailservers

RMX writes "CNet's reporting that the new spam zombie PCs are no longer acting as their own mailservers, but cooperate with the ISPs' recommendation that instead of running your own mail server, to use theirs instead."

Comments

can we expand the war on terra to include spammers

[trolluscressida]

I would love to see a Special Ops unit bust down the walls of a spammer's house, beat him, gag him, beat him again, send him to Guantanomo Bay for eternity, and than C-4 the spam servers.

Everyone should write their congressmen requesting this.

Email Meltdown my ass

[mg2]

If we just switched to a secure email system (SSL/TLS, or whatever), a lot of these dumb problems would go away.

Yes, I know some mail clients don't support this functionality, but come on. Name one of the modern clients that won't do it. Thunderbird, Mail.app, Eudora, Outlook ... they all know how.

I suppose then you just have to convince users. This, though, should be the easiest part:

Dear User,
This email is to notify you that your neighbor has been recieving your monthly e-bank statements and password confirmation emails because you are stubborn and insist on using insecure email protocols.

Incidentally, we'd like to thank you for your subscription to DAILY LESBIAN ACTION MAIL!!!1

Re:Simple solution

[mcc]

Otherwise, two problems could be solved in one fell swoop: ... use Pine

But then they would have a third problem.