How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site?

Thu Dec 2 21:46:00 UTC 2004

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 4:28 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam
> scr eensaver site?
> 
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> on Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:15:34PM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> quoting me:
> > > My point was to Martin's question about what would happen if - god
> > > forbid - there were large botnets under the control of spammers; a
> > > careful reading will suggest that my major point was, 
> duh, that there
> > > already are large botnets under the control of spammers.
> > 
> > Um, not 1 million bots - in concert. 
> 
> And you know this how, exactly? I'm sure not convinced.

http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/business/story.asp?StoryID=65877

"Lycos Europe's 20 million users will all be invited to download 
the software, but it is available to anyone with an internet connection 
running either Windows or Mac OSX or Mac OS9 operating systems."

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/12/02/anti.spamvigi.ap/

"Around 65,000 people already signed up for the offensive, called 
"Make Love not Spam" before Tuesday's official launch on a website 
by the same name, the company said. It is urging its 22 million users 
to download the screen-saver, but says anyone with a computer is welcome 
to it."