"Make love, not spam"....

Mon Nov 29 15:29:49 UTC 2004

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:28 AM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: "Make love, not spam"....
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> The BBC also has an article this morning about this:
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>  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4051553.stm
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> - ferg
> 
> -- "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg at netzero.net> wrote:
> 
> Techdirt has an article this morning that discusses how
> Lycos Europe is encouraging their users to run a screensaver
> that constantly "pings servers suspected to be used by
> spammers" and also suggests that "In other words, it's a
> distributed denial of service attack against spammers by
> Lycos."
> 
> The Techdirt article referenced is on Heise Online:
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>  http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/53697
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> I'd be curious to hear what NANOG readers thoughts are on
> this.
> 
> Techdirt is located at http://www.techdirt.com/
> 
> - ferg

It's a DDOS. The risk of collateral damage is  high. I 
won't discuss the RBL aspect of it because it can't be
legitimized past the first sentence.

-M<