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Story: Lycos should send its zombie army home

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Thanks for your comments. We have made one slight alteration to the article in light of these, but we believe that the point about denial of service attacks stands.

Lycos did say one server had lost 85 percent of its bandwidth, which is in anyone's book at least a partial denial of service attack (and we did make the point that we didn't want to get into semantics in the piece). If whatever you call it that Lycos is doing here is only 5 percent effective then what's the point in doing it?

As for the point about not having a name to this, it is a leader. Leaders don't have author names; they represent the opinion of the editorial team rather than the opinion of one individual. We produce one every morning of every working day on a subject that we think is important to our readers, and if we generate some discussion or make a valid point we feel we've done our job.

Of course your feedback is always useful to us, and we even like being corrected on the odd occasion that a technical nuance slips through that is not quite on the spot. Keep 'em coming.

Thanks

Matt

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