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Re: "Make love, not spam"....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Mon Nov 29 09:29:11 2004

From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:28:10 GMT
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



The BBC also has an article this morning about this:

 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

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg@netzero.net or
 fergdawg@sbcglobal.net

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