You'll enjoy this excerpt from the 1994 winner's entry (CNET):
As the fading light of a dying day filtered through the window blinds, Roger stood over his victim with a smoking.45, surprised at the serenity that filled him after pumping six slugs into the bloodless tyrant that mocked him day after day, and then he shuffled out of the office with one last look back at the shattered computer terminal lying there like a silicon armadillo left to rot on the information superhighway.
"Why not fight fire with fire? These scum have placed themselves outside of the "law" " - FyRE666
"The sort of scum who send spam" - FyRE666
Technically, according to the CAN-SPAM Act, spamming is legal (though I cringe at the thought). A spammer is allowed to send you an unsolicited commercial email as long as he provides his return address and a way to opt out of the message. If you DDoS'd a spammer who followed these rules and he took you to court, he'd win. Please don't be mean to the law-abiding spammers! *snicker*
In a blog entry [June 20, 2005], Blue Security representatives responded to the DDoS issue. Apparently the company has decided to drop its technique of forwarding every spam and multiplying the reply rate. Instead, only one complaint per spam is generated. They also said that the responses are staggered to minimize the possibility of a DDoS attack from Blue Frog's network.
Does AIMFight only consider how many people are on buddy lists? It would be more accurate if it tracked a person's active online time and the amount of time they talked. A person with fifty people on their list who only gets on an hour a week should have a lower score than someone with a dozen AIM friends who talks to them all the time.
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You'll enjoy this excerpt from the 1994 winner's entry (CNET):
.45, surprised at the serenity that filled him after pumping six slugs into the bloodless tyrant that mocked him day after day, and then he shuffled out of the office with one last look back at the shattered computer terminal lying there like a silicon armadillo left to rot on the information superhighway.
As the fading light of a dying day filtered through the window blinds, Roger stood over his victim with a smoking
At least they aren't trying to patent ones and zeroes yet.
Check out ROKSO on Spamhaus.
"Why not fight fire with fire? These scum have placed themselves outside of the "law" " - FyRE666 "The sort of scum who send spam" - FyRE666 Technically, according to the CAN-SPAM Act, spamming is legal (though I cringe at the thought). A spammer is allowed to send you an unsolicited commercial email as long as he provides his return address and a way to opt out of the message. If you DDoS'd a spammer who followed these rules and he took you to court, he'd win. Please don't be mean to the law-abiding spammers! *snicker*
In a blog entry [June 20, 2005], Blue Security representatives responded to the DDoS issue. Apparently the company has decided to drop its technique of forwarding every spam and multiplying the reply rate. Instead, only one complaint per spam is generated. They also said that the responses are staggered to minimize the possibility of a DDoS attack from Blue Frog's network.
Does AIMFight only consider how many people are on buddy lists? It would be more accurate if it tracked a person's active online time and the amount of time they talked. A person with fifty people on their list who only gets on an hour a week should have a lower score than someone with a dozen AIM friends who talks to them all the time.