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Lycos Declares War on Spam Servers
Psychotext writes "The Register have posted a story about a new screensaver from Lycos that targets known spam servers (taken from spamcop and verified by hand) with traffic in order to raise their bandwidth costs and hopefully price them out of the game. Lycos state that this is not a DDOS as Lycos monitors the site's responsiveness and throttles back when the site starts to falter. The screensaver is available here for Mac OSX, Mac OS9 and Windows, though you might need to lie about what country you are from." Reader JohnGrahamCumming writes "As part of preparing for the MIT Spam Conference I've put together a survey on what people are experiencing out there with spam, what they are doing about and followed it up with a test of different views of an inbox filled with spam and ham. You can take the test and be part of the survey results in January."
Look at it this way.
There are hundreds of thousands of mail servers out there, and many of them are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of spam which they recieve. Some of them to the point of being denied service.
If any of these spammers cry foul... they either lose the lawsuit and are screwed because their cost of operations will skyrocket, or they win AND MAIL SERVER ADMINS WILL SUE THE SPAMMERS.
Either way, the rest of the internet is doing to spammers what spammers have been doing to the rest of the internet.
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
- Seneca
You must be one of those lame Farkers who insists on misusing the slash character at the end of a post to indicate the close of a nonextistent tag that you never opened in the first place.
The poor grammar, "me ducks," isn't cute in the least either.
Grow up, despite the fact that you're likely 30-something.
STU-PID.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
You don't have the faintest idea how DNS works, do you?
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