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Re: Lycos pulls anti-spam screensaver from site
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:41:24 +0000 (GMT)
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
I was thinking the same thing.... Plus, "Stay Tuned" doesn't mean that they necessarily pulled the screensaver permanently....
they might re-introduce the screensaver, sure... or their add campaign might now be over :) As to 'what about the already downloaded clients?' if they can't get updates from the server they don't do anything... apparently they are already doing this since so many folks blocked access to the site.
- ferg -- Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:"Lycos Europe appeared to have pulled a controversial anti-spam screensaver program from its site on Friday, after coming under fire from both security experts and the spammers themselves."Okay. Now what about all those users who have this thing installed? Do they DDoS the same IP's for all eternity? Gadi. -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
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- Lycos pulls anti-spam screensaver from site Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Dec 03)
- Re: Lycos pulls anti-spam screensaver from site Gadi Evron (Dec 03)
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- Re: Lycos pulls anti-spam screensaver from site Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Dec 03)
- Re: Lycos pulls anti-spam screensaver from site Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 03)
- Re: Lycos pulls anti-spam screensaver from site Steven Susbauer (Dec 03)
- Re: Lycos pulls anti-spam screensaver from site Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 03)
- RE: Lycos pulls anti-spam screensaver from site Hannigan, Martin (Dec 03)