I have an alternate idea...involving the data this Lycos project uses...
There are also other servers that already provide lists of URLs to be blocked by content-scanning.
This Blacklist Proxy is integrated into Internet Providers, businesses, etc...
just won't happen in subscriber access networks.
Now what about websites which may be hosted on the same IP address? You can't get to them either.
collateral damage, "stuff happens".
Call it "Electronic Sanctions" that actually work. If it was done at an ISP level, or even a root-server level...poor little spammers!
This technology, and the URL databases, are already available in "nanny"-type proxies, and while they are mature and effetive, they far from being universally deployed in organizations. And for PCs that aren't in an private organization, but access via subscriber networks, the subscriber network operators, who don't even block port 25 now, will never install nanny stuff, due to legal implications that have occured in libraries and schools.
The inferiority of this approach to the DDoS approach is that EVERY single network has to implement it locally. ain't gonna happen.
The HTTP DDoS hits the spammer at his single source, not at his 100's of 1000s of spam targets.
Len
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