That is like saying since someone on a bus shot at you, it's ok to blow up the bus and kill innocent people.
Your analogy is entirely wrong. The better comparison to what Lycos is trying to do would be to force the bus to drive very slowly until the bus driver removed the shooter and then to le the bus proceed on it's way. Lycos is NOT proposing launching enough packets at the spammer's site to even stop people from getting to it if they want.
Web sites are normally on shared servers with many other web sites, blatantly and blindly attacking one of them is essentially attacking them all. This is just not a good idea INHO, this is not like a one to one confrontation where he hits you so you punch him back. This is a situation where you get hit and you throw a brick randomly in a crowd not caring who else you hit.
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>Not self-defense...see other posts.
COUNTER-attacking spamvertizers' websites that are attacking our MXs is ABSOLUTELY self-defense, and thereby justifiable and not "immoral".
Len
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