[75956] in North American Network Operators' Group
"Make love, not spam"....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Mon Nov 29 09:17:32 2004
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:14:01 GMT
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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
--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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