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Lycos Pulls Vigilante Anti-spam Campaign

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hardly-knew-ye dept.

davidwr writes "Eweek reports that Lycos is scrapping it's anti-spam campaign: 'On Friday, Lycos Europe gave up the ghost, posting a 'Stay Tuned' note on the MakeLoveNotSpam.com Web site it was using to distribute the screensaver. The Lycos Europe home page, which heavily promoted the screensaver all week, was also scrubbed clean of any references to the screensaver.' See previous Slashdot coverage from Nov. 26, Dec. 1, and Dec. 2."

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  1. Anti spam from a spyware vendor? by Shaper+of+Myths · · Score: 5, Informative

    I stopped trusting Lycos the day I started finding this bloody thing on my customers computers. That they tried and failed at something so shady in the first place doesn't seem like much of a surprise to me. This was just some poorly done publicity stunt, probably dreamed up in by some PHB deep in the dungeons of their marketing department.