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Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Brings Down Spam Sites
ChairmanMeow writes "According to BBC News, the screensaver released by Lycos Europe that targets spam websites has been a bit too successful at targeting spam sites, bringing down two sites, with a third responding intermittently, and raising concerns that the screensaver amounts to a DDoS attack against spam sites. Of course, spammers deserve to be punished, but will DDoS attacks against spam websites help to curb the problem of spam?" While the screensaver allegedly throttles back when a site slows, it would seem it's being a bit overzealous.
Sure we're pounding spammer sites, but does replacing one form of useless traffic with another really accomplish anything?
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Off of www.artofsense.com Special note: We are an innocent victim of Lycos anti-spam program and our lawyers preparing a lawsuit against it. One Israeli company tried to resell our paintings and they used spam and to save their traffic they put links to images on our site. We have NO connection with their spam.