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Story: Lycos anti-spam campaign bites the dust

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Posted by: Eric (Monday 6 December 2004, 5:57 PM)

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I am very surprised at the resistance Lycos received for "makelovenotspam". You can argue about legality all day long, but you can't avoid the simple fact that Lycos came up with the best way (so far) to combat the problem.
The plan may not have been perfect, details needed to be ironed out, but it would have worked. In the week that the screensaver worked, it did more to combat spam than anything else has since spam had a name. Laws against spam haven't worked; filters are mediocer at best, and don't fix the root of the problem, nobody has succeded in bringing about justice.
Lycos came up with a solution. Yes, it relied on making vigilantes out of the masses, but so have many other successful revolutions in history. Think about it.

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