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RE: "Make love, not spam"....
- From: Hannigan, Martin
- Date: Mon Nov 29 10:42:10 2004
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:28 AM
> To: nanog@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
>
> - ferg
>
> -- "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@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:
>
> 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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