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Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Brings Down Spam Sites

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Posted by: Ion Silverbolt

BBC news has the latest.


A plan to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers seems to be getting out of control.Earlier this week Lycos Europe released a screensaver that bombards spam websites with data to try to increase the cost of running such sites. But analysis shows that, in some cases, spam websites are being completely overwhelmed by the traffic being directed their way.

The Lycos plan has also come under fire for encouraging vigilantism.




Posted by: Ion Silverbolt

Too funny. Unfortunately I doubt it will be successful.



 
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