-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Hannigan, Martin Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:16 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: "Make love, not spam"....

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-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 12:45 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: "Make love, not spam"....

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-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:54 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: "Make love, not spam"....

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The big difference between Lycos Europe, and a script

kiddie with

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zombies is that Lycos is mature enough to use restraint and not knock down websites with brute force. They're attempting to use the politically correct "grown up" way to attack someone: economics.

I didn't know there was a politically correct way to create a BotMonster and rule the Internet by emminent domain.

-M<

Yeah, that's exactly what they're doing! It's a plot to TAKE OVER THE WORLD. You figured it out!

It's about giving the spammers what they want: More traffic to their websites. How can it be wrong when they send out 1 million emails that all say "click on this link" and 1 million computers actually click the link? Who's in the wrong there?

Besides: "rule the Internet by emminent domain." Isn't' that Verisign's job?

For all who are interested, the controller appears to live at 230.136.241.83

That would be the in-addr folks. 83.241.136.230 -M<