IMO, I prefer not to participate in illegal activities
Admirable position, but what's illegal? How is making HTTP requests to a public HTTP service illegal? These websites are spamming Internet with billions of messages containing links to their HTTP servers so we can connect to them. Perfectly legal to connect to them.
You're a paying victim (loss of $$$ + your time to buy/maintain anti-spam defenses, loss of bandwidth and other resources) of bogus/bad-faith/cracker activities (spamming/virus/ratware) as these websites targeted by the Lycos screensaver pay spammers to DDoS your MXs.
You cannot appeal to any national/international law/law-enforcers to stop that abuse of your MXs.
The multi $billion network operators world-wide who permit their networks to attack your MXs refuse to police their own networks, their bottom lines be sacred, your MXs be damned.
The Lycos screensaver is very clearly vigilante "law" enforcement, reflecting the spammers' DDoS of us back onto a DDoS of the spamvertizers. There are no laws or illegality involved.
Len
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