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Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver put on halt

 
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:10 am    Post subject: Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver put on halt
 
Many of you have already heard of Lycos' new way of fighting spammers. For those of you unaware, Lycos developed and started distributing a DDOS (Dedicated Denial of Service) screen saver. If you ran the screen saver, it would continuously request information from websites known to be spam-havens. By having many people doing this at one time, the spam sites would be slowed down, and eventually Lycos hoped that the bandwidth costs associated with their screensaver would put the spammers out of business. Unfortunatly, due to widespread criticism, they decided to stop distribution of the screen saver. Any thoughts?
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:58 pm    Post subject:
 
Where can I download this screen saver? Just kidding. I think it's a clever idea, but it's not any more moral than hacking them.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:57 am    Post subject:
 
Seems like the spam business can change so easy - it's hard to pin them down like that. I imagine spam will only really stop once it stops getting results - so the best way to battle it is to stop idiots from buying their penis supplements through E-mail.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:17 am    Post subject:
 
Clockwork wrote:
Seems like the spam business can change so easy - it's hard to pin them down like that. I imagine spam will only really stop once it stops getting results - so the best way to battle it is to stop idiots from buying their penis supplements through E-mail.


Well you know what they say, "It's not the size of the hammer, its the Nail you're hitting it at". Wink
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