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RE: "Make love, not spam"....
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan () verisign com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:29:49 -0500
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:28 AM To: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: "Make love, not spam".... The BBC also has an article this morning about this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4051553.stm - ferg -- "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote: Techdirt has an article this morning that discusses how Lycos Europe is encouraging their users to run a screensaver that constantly "pings servers suspected to be used by spammers" and also suggests that "In other words, it's a distributed denial of service attack against spammers by Lycos." The Techdirt article referenced is on Heise Online: http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/53697 I'd be curious to hear what NANOG readers thoughts are on this. Techdirt is located at http://www.techdirt.com/ - ferg
It's a DDOS. The risk of collateral damage is high. I won't discuss the RBL aspect of it because it can't be legitimized past the first sentence. -M<
Current thread:
- Re: "Make love, not spam"...., (continued)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Rich Kulawiec (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Peter Corlett (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Steven M. Bellovin (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Peter Corlett (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Robert M. Enger (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Nov 29)
- FW: "Make love, not spam".... Miller, Mark (Nov 29)
- RE: "Make love, not spam".... Miller, Mark (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Paul G (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Erik Haagsman (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Paul G (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Paul G (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Rich Kulawiec (Nov 29)
- RE: "Make love, not spam".... Hannigan, Martin (Nov 29)
- RE: "Make love, not spam".... Jerry Pasker (Nov 29)
- RE: "Make love, not spam".... chuck goolsbee (Nov 29)
- RE: "Make love, not spam".... Scott Weeks (Nov 29)
- Re: "Make love, not spam".... Rich Kulawiec (Nov 29)
- RE: "Make love, not spam".... Jerry Pasker (Nov 29)
- RE: "Make love, not spam".... Jerry Pasker (Nov 29)