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Story: Lycos anti-spam campaign bites the dust

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What ever the perceived faults of the Lycos plans are, I still throw my resounding support behind industry initiatives like this.

Having been in the web industry since the mid 90's I have seen the cowboy attitude of unscrupulous operators first hand. Granted the Lycos initiative may be cowboyesque in its own way, but action must be taken against the bandwidth sapping and productivity taxing SPAMMERS.

If we as an industry are to mature, and to regain the trust that we lost during the .com crash, I firmly believe that we need to self regulate more effectively.

Lycos unfortunately did not win broad based support for its initiative and perhaps should have approached the problem differently. Nonetheless, full kudos the folks at Lycos for having the guts to propose anything at all other than government legislation of an almost unlegislable industry.

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