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Story: Black Frog hops into spam battle

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Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 26 May 2006, 5:50 PM)

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Opt-Out messages being called a form of DDOS regardless of how they are generated, as long as they still represent a 1 to 1 spam to opt-out message ratio is not an attack, but rather merely a blow for blow defense. The DDOS attack is just blowback from the spammer using ridiculous means to market their crap.

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