Yup, this was my first thought along with getting caught!
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 12:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites
>Now this sounds like the kind of anti-spammer offense that could really
>hurt the spammers badly. They can't sell anything if their websites are
>continually DDoS'ded.
That is a terrible thing -- imagine how many lawsuits there will be.
The biggest problem is that many spammers don't pay for bandwidth, they
steal it. So you're just hurting a company that is already being hurt by
spammers.
Another problem is that it hurts the Internet -- by using up bandwidth that
otherwise could go to good purposes. When you send a packet to a computer,
it doesn't just affect their bandwidth -- it affects yours, your
neighbor's, and that of many other people.
Yet another problem is that spammers can now do much more damage to a
website they are trying to DDoS. They can just send out spam with the URL
of the website in it.
It's a shame to see Lycos getting sucked into something like this.
-Scott
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