"Make love, not spam"....

Mon Nov 29 16:25:21 UTC 2004

In message <cofh1v$f48$1 at dopiaza.cabal.org.uk>, Peter Corlett writes:
>
>Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org> wrote:
>> Already noted as unbelievably stupid and dissected on Spam-L,
>
>I'm inclined to agree...
>
>> but: getting into a bandwidth contest with spammers is a guaranteed
>> loss, as they have an [essentially] infinite amount available to
>> them for free. Apparently Lycos is unaware of zombies (including
>> those hosting web sites), HTTP redirectors, rapidly-updating DNS,
>> throwaway domains, and other facts of life in the spam sewer.
>
>... but this screensaver means that Lycos *also* have a botnet
>available to them.

Yah -- imagine what happens if Lycos' control machine gets hacked...

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb