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Re: "Make love, not spam"....
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:52:22 -0500
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:14:01PM +0000, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
Techdirt has an article this morning that discusses how Lycos Europe is encouraging their users to run a screensaver that constantly "pings servers suspected to be used by spammers" and also suggests that "In other words, it's a distributed denial of service attack against spammers by Lycos."
Already noted as unbelievably stupid and dissected on Spam-L, but: getting into a bandwidth contest with spammers is a guaranteed loss, as they have an [essentially] infinite amount available to them for free. Apparently Lycos is unaware of zombies (including those hosting web sites), HTTP redirectors, rapidly-updating DNS, throwaway domains, and other facts of life in the spam sewer. ---Rsk
Current thread:
- "Make love, not spam".... Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Suresh Ramasubramanian (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Mike Tancsa (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Rich Kulawiec (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Peter Corlett (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Steven M. Bellovin (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Peter Corlett (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Robert M. Enger (Nov 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Nov 29)
- FW: "Make love, not spam".... Miller, Mark (Nov 29)
- RE: "Make love, not spam".... Miller, Mark (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Paul G (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Erik Haagsman (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Paul G (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Paul G (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Suresh Ramasubramanian (Nov 29)
- RE: "Make love, not spam".... Hannigan, Martin (Nov 29)