Comments on: Spim, splog on the rise

Spammers are increasingly targeting blogs, social-networking sites and IM programs, MessageLabs warns.

[Nkully86]

spam, splog, spim...what's next?

First came spam, then splog, spim, what's next...spmail? spfantasy baseball?

Hackers have done a great job of annoying the living heck out of us and a 9% increase in spam mail means that regardless of how hard we try to avoid it, they will try even harder to shove it in our faces. Email used to be the easiest form of communication but now it is one of the most difficult because of all the necessary security precautions. If June brought a 9% increase in spam, who knows where the e-mail world will be come December...
http://www.essentialsecurity.com/Documents/article10.htm

[washedaway]

spext

I believe the up and coming thing will be...spext messaging.

[Vorobushek]

Server protection?

I am not that technical, but I've heard a lot of servers are exploited as email servers by malicious persons. Of course for Spam.
Why not make protecting servers mandatory for hosting companies? Why not demand they protection (and check it) when someone host his server or make a connection from their own servers to the internet?
Must be possible to detect.
Perhaps some "labelling" of companies that take care of protecting their servers?
Or is this to simple thinking?