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."

Comments

Two words:

[Suzuran]

GREAT IDEA!

Re:This is NOT A DDOS!!

[pyrros]

Overrated? How the heck can I be modded overrated when I haven't even been modded in the first place!

Heh, that's nothing, I smell "offtopic" coming your (our?) way too :-)

Something that WILL stop the SPAM

[drsmack1]

Here is my plan:
1. Announce that anyone who sends a spam or releases a new virus will be hunted down and killed by the US Navy Seals or Army Special Forces.
2. Follow through
Think about it; if there is a very real possibility that you will die if you spam or release viruses - maybe you won't.
If someone still ignores this and continues to be a bad Internet "citizen" they obviously they are deranged and should be considered a threat to others. Killing them is a mercy at that point.

OH. MY. GOD.

[nomadic]

Lycos is still around?!

Re:Fighting spam with more crap?

[njchick]

Melting people's faces is bad. Melting political opponents' faces is awesome. Because, honestly, they're political opponents.