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Story: Black Frog hops into spam battle

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Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 26 May 2006, 11:51 PM)

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What a sloppily researched article.

1. The Blue Frog software was NOT "designed to crash spammers' servers." It was an automated way to sent opt-out requests, one request per spam received. There was never any intention to crash anything.

Crashing is what the criminal spammers did in response to Blue Frog's legal and ethcial software.

2. There is no plan for any software named Black Frog. There was a Black Frog project for a few days, but it merged early on with the Okopipi project.

The software that comes out of the Okopipi project is likely to be called -- Okopipi. Duh.

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