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Story: Lycos should send its zombie army home
Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 1 December 2004, 1:58 PM)
Complete nonsense. I've no desire to defend Lycos, but didn't they say that their aim is not to take the spammer's web servers down, but only to use up a little bandwidth so that the spammer's have to face a financial cost to their enterprise?
There are orders of magnitude difference between using a little bandwidth and using so much that the server becomes unavailable (which by the way is what is meant by 'denial-of-service'). The former denies service to no one.
It's also complete nonsense to say "because the spammers often use compromised PCs ..., Lycos' ... is likely to miss the real target". As far as I know, spammers are using compromised PCs to send out spam emails, not to run their web servers.
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Story: Lycos should send its zombie army home
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Complete nonsense. I've no desire to defend Lycos,... Anonymous -
Agreed, anonymous. While the writer may have... Richi Jennings -
Thanks for your comments. We have made one slight... Matt Loney
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Ahh yes, let's sit on our hands while no one figur... Anonymous
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You have been had.
makelovenotspam.com domain is r... Anonymous
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Ah yes, Let's return to the days of the Wild... Wild Bill
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Maybe we should use SPAMVAMPIRE then?
See: ht... Anonymous
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I have to say that Lycos is in the right... rdude -
writer of this article, what are your vested inter... john galt
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Perhaps instead of bitching about Lycos you could... Bob Skinley
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"The Ends Justify the Means."
This is an old... Chris Rankin
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Regardless of how beneficial this may be... Anonymous
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