Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587 195
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kdawson
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from the decade-late-and-a-megabuck-short dept.
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.
Verizon spam zombies (Score:5, Funny)
I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...
PORT 587 THE GATE TO HELL (Score:1, Funny)
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 ?
Re:first (Score:3, Funny)
No, the guy posting before you did that ;-)
Re:Finally, Verizon, Finally!! (Score:5, Funny)
I send out a newsletter with about 250 subscribers per zombie.
Comcast (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Verizon spam zombies (Score:5, Funny)
Re:PORT 587 THE GATE TO HELL (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Remembering credentials?! (Score:1, Funny)
I am and I've never had a probsnoopy417$lem with it.
Yo Dawg, (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Comcast (Score:2, Funny)
no probably AOL
l2ISP
I thought AOL customers just posted ....
HOW DO I POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
27 times in a row.
Re:What's this "finally" shit? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:What's this "finally" shit? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Comcast (Score:2, Funny)