News Anti-spam screensaver scrapped

Lycos has obviously had enough lovin' - as it's ceased it's anti-spam campaign according to several sites around the web. This report from the Beeb:

A contentious campaign to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers by flooding their sites with data has been dropped.

Lycos Europe's Make Love, Not Spam campaign began in late November but its tactics proved controversial.

Lycos has shut down the campaign saying it had been started to stimulate debate about anti-spam measures and had now achieved this aim.

The anti-spammer screensaver came under fire for encouraging vigilante activity and skirting the edge of the law.

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really? am not sure I believe this.


It's quite possible that some "underground" group will reinvent/recreate the idea though.

 

Heh.. It was great while it lasted, Legal DoSing

 

even if this is a easy way out...i still think it has stimulated enough...debate.

at least lots of mainstream know that spammers can be hit back. this just is not the right way.

 

i could never trust the security of something that runs in the background and floods other sites.