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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."
Great idea? This is a horrible idea! ISPs make money by oversubscription, and this will cause higher bandwidth utilization across the Internet.
Yeah, and you stupid anonymous cow forgot to include your name -> no way to show anyone it was you -> no bragging rights for you. Pretty pointless to make a FP as anonymous cow, don't you think? Ahh well, coward or stupid cow, who cares.
I would have explained my position in detail so that it wouldn't seem like flamebait, but then it wouldn't be two words, now would it?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.