[75970] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Make love, not spam"....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Mon Nov 29 10:54:27 2004
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:52:22 -0500
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041129.061440.18711.255814@webmail06.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:14:01PM +0000, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 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."
Already noted as unbelievably stupid and dissected on Spam-L, but:
getting into a bandwidth contest with spammers is a guaranteed loss, as
they have an [essentially] infinite amount available to them for free.
Apparently Lycos is unaware of zombies (including those hosting web
sites), HTTP redirectors, rapidly-updating DNS, throwaway domains,
and other facts of life in the spam sewer.
---Rsk
