RHBLs are a method of locking them out just like a door lock, a tool to keep them out. There is no comparison between locking out spammers and attacking the URL that is mentioned within the spam.
that wasn't the comparison I was making. There was a worry about DDoS and collateral damage causing collapse of companies and the world economy, aka, Chicken Little FUD. I brought in RBLs as also having blocked legit sites, and we/internet has learned to handle/live with that, as we will with DDoS.
And, RBL is very much a distributed DoS, denying mail delivery service by the block IP to all MXs subscribing to the RBL.
I think it's a totally awesome concept they have by launching a DDoS and raising the cost of spam to a point where people will stop it.
ah, least that.
hat I question is how well this is thought out before an attack is launched.
then wait and see. The spammers/phishers/criminals aren't.
Since the spammer/hacker enemy is able to totally shut down the Lycos site, it's also very likely they will be going after the Lycos bots as well.
Lycos was not a distributed DOS, afaics, it was single machine doing the DOS. easy to take out, and it was. But if 1000's or 10's 1000's of PCs directly attack a website and each PC participates intermittantly (untraceably) against any one HTTP service, the attack, as we know from our MXs getting spammed by 1000's of attackers, is impossible to stop.
Len
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