[SpamCop-List] Re: Spammers' New Strategy - Oh, Man!!

[Berny]

"Steven Maesslein" <nobody at nowhere.invalid> wrote in message
news:slrnd097j2.sg.nobody at 127.0.0.1...
> On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:17:26 -0800, Peter Pearson coughed into spamcop
> and left this in <cu16pn$q4t$1 at news.spamcop.net>:
>
> > Is there an alternative interpretation of the article that
> > makes it more "new" news?
>
> I haven't read the article but what *is* new about this particular
> infestation is that it sends the spam out through the ISP's official
> SMTP circuit instead of going out direct-to-mx.

Isn't that jsut what they used to do a few years ago, all over again, except
instead of having an account, spammer "borrows" one from a zombied user?