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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: "Make love, not spam"....
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:28 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: "Make love, not spam".... > > > > > The BBC also has an article this morning about this: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4051553.stm > > - ferg > > -- "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <[email protected]> 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: > > http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/53697 > > 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<
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