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Lycos Declares War on Spam Servers

Posted by michael on from the spam-it-forward dept.

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."

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  1. Lycos? by Saeger · · Score: 5, Funny
    I can barely hear what Lycos is saying... but it sounds like... "I'm not dead yet!"

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  2. Re:Fighting spam with more crap? by typhoonius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but...they're spammers.

    It's like the Indiana Jones movies. Melting people's faces is bad. Melting Nazi's faces is awesome. Because, honestly, they're Nazis.

    I'm not saying spammers are Nazis, just that we should melt their faces.

  3. Re:Fighting spam with more crap? by vyruss000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    (raising clenched fist looking at the sky)

    DAMN YOU, GODWIN! :)

  4. Re:This is NOT A DDOS!! by logic+hack · · Score: 5, Funny
    Actually, it's a great idea, now only if a cool Open source dev would make an open version of this and take away that whole throttling thing
    I believe it's called a slashdotting.