If we're going to fight a war
It seems that Lycos have switched off their Make Love Not Spam system that was hitting back at the spammers, I guess they fear they could be accused of organising a DDOS - Distributed Denial of Services attack on the spammers web servers.
Although I can appreciate that a DDOS attack is essentially wrong, it was really satisfying to see the spammers taking it from behind for a change. If we are engaged in a war with spammers then surely we need to use the same weapons they are using - you wouldn't expect an army to sit there and let itself be shelled out of existence without firing back.
Hopefully, with the idea of hitting the spammer back in this way out in the open, some enterprising programmer will write some code to do what Lycos have done and distribute it "open source" on the net.
Imagine visiting www.shareware.com or www.versiontracker.com and being able to choose from 40 different screens savers that do to the spammers what they've been doing to us for years.
Although I can appreciate that a DDOS attack is essentially wrong, it was really satisfying to see the spammers taking it from behind for a change. If we are engaged in a war with spammers then surely we need to use the same weapons they are using - you wouldn't expect an army to sit there and let itself be shelled out of existence without firing back.
Hopefully, with the idea of hitting the spammer back in this way out in the open, some enterprising programmer will write some code to do what Lycos have done and distribute it "open source" on the net.
Imagine visiting www.shareware.com or www.versiontracker.com and being able to choose from 40 different screens savers that do to the spammers what they've been doing to us for years.
2 Comments:
Hey Merl - what's with all the live links? You'll be installing a hit counter next.
This guy seems to have been inspired by our local bar http://trevc.net/whassup/anti/Snookie.swf
By Milt Bogs, at 8:09 PM
Have you recovered enough from Margarita to be visting the Hole in the Wall later?
By Merl, at 8:41 PM
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