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Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587
The Washington Post's Security Fix blog is reporting that Verizon, long identified as the largest ISP source of spam, is moving to require use of the submission port, 587, in outbound mail — and thus to require authentication. While spammers may still be able to relay spam through zombies in Verizon's network, if the victims let their mail clients remember their authentication credentials, at least the zombies will be easily identifiable. Verizon pledges to clean up their zombie problem quickly. We'll see.
I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...
Last week I routed an email through PORT 587 and this came out of it:
Hai Adonai Abmozedel, Adonai Garntaturagah, Adonai Hai Prezelbuuub, Adonai Hai Koadze....and so on.
Is their choice really smart ?
No, the guy posting before you did that ;-)
I send out a newsletter with about 250 subscribers per zombie.
Well your spam made it through, but the response must have been throttled since you didn't get first post. You're a Comcast customer, aren't you?
I went to eat some animal crackers and the box said, "Do not eat if seal is broken." I opened the box and sure enough..
I am and I've never had a probsnoopy417$lem with it.
I herd you like emails in your emails, so I put some traffic thru yo traffic.
So, you spent "many days bitching at my IT guys at work" and in the end the problem was with your Internet Service at home?! You posted this on Slashdot?
Ummm, yeah, we're going to need your address. I've already handed out the torches and pitchforks.
I live at 1835 73rd Ave NE, Medina, WA 98039
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.