-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:28 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: "Make love, not spam"....
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
It's a DDOS. The risk of collateral damage is high. I won't discuss the RBL aspect of it because it can't be legitimized past the first sentence. -M<