30-11-2004, 20:41
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lycos's spam offensive
lycos, has released a program which acts as a screensaver but is actively crippiling email spammers, the program itself will hit known IP's with ' HTTP get requests' to choke servers which send spam.
65.000 users have already participated in the program.
source: yahoo news
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...spam_vigilante
adds more traffic to the internet, but will it make a diffarence ?
its totally legal...
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30-11-2004, 20:47
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
Cheers kronny, I've installed mine already 
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30-11-2004, 20:51
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
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Originally Posted by Russ D
Cheers kronny, I've installed mine already |
no problem.
URL for those wanting it:
http://makelovenotspam.com/intl/
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30-11-2004, 20:52
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
I also installed it today 
Just go to leave my pc alone long enough for it to actually get used now
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30-11-2004, 20:57
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
Have dont the same just this second........  
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30-11-2004, 20:57
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
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Originally Posted by kronas
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Excellent! In fact have a red rep
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30-11-2004, 20:58
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
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Originally Posted by Russ D
Excellent! In fact have a red rep |
cheeky sod 
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30-11-2004, 21:03
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Rather fruity
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
Site's not available 
I blame the spammers 
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30-11-2004, 21:09
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
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Originally Posted by dellwear
Site's not available
I blame the spammers |
the site is working fine here, perhaps lycos does not like you, and hopes your spammed. 
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30-11-2004, 21:15
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
installed and will leave running tonight
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30-11-2004, 21:37
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Rather fruity
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
Site working now
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30-11-2004, 21:47
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
Isn't this just going to add more useless traffic to the network and to the rest of the internet?
I'm not convinced it is enitirely legal anyway.
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30-11-2004, 22:36
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
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Originally Posted by Flubflow
I'm not convinced it is enitirely legal anyway.
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The spammers aren't exactly legit...
EDIT: It looks like the spammers have launched a counter attack by denying service to makelovenotspam.com - could this be the start of the 1st Internet War?
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30-11-2004, 23:31
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
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Originally Posted by kronas
its totally legal...
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Sorry? Launching DOS attacks is now *legal*???
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30-11-2004, 23:39
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
Well its all a little bloody these battles in real life.
So lets settle this
THE BATTLE OF THE PC USER V THE SPAMMERS.
Settled on voted multiplayer game of choice.
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