Have Spammers Overcome the CAPTCHA?

thefickler writes "It appears that spammers have found a way to automatically create Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts. They have already generated more than 15,000 bogus Hotmail accounts, according to security company BitDefender. The company says that a new threat, dubbed Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A, is using automatically generated Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to send out spam email, which suggests that spammers have found a way to overcome Microsoft's and Yahoo's CAPTCHA systems."

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Re:The solution is simple;

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Better still, just block all e-mail. Really, it's dead. The only people who use e-mail for anything are spammers and morons. If people really want to contact you, they can do so via other means.

There's probably a place for private, closed e-mail networks which are not accessible to spammers and where anyone attempting to spam will get terminated without prejudice ..... but the present mess is just unworkable.