borfast Posted November 27, 2004 Posted November 27, 2004 (edited) Just saw this on Slashdot: Psychotext writes "The Register have posted a story about a new screensaver from Lycos that targets known spam servers (taken from spamcop and verified by hand) with traffic in order to raise their bandwidth costs and hopefully price them out of the game. Lycos state that this is not a DDOS as Lycos monitors the site's responsiveness and throttles back when the site starts to falter. The screensaver is available here for Mac OSX, Mac OS9 and Windows, though you might need to lie about what country you are from." Reader JohnGrahamCumming writes "As part of preparing for the MIT Spam Conference I've put together a survey on what people are experiencing out there with spam, what they are doing about and followed it up with a test of different views of an inbox filled with spam and ham. You can take the test and be part of the survey results in January. Sounds a pretty good idea, to me! It's something I think most of us have thought of doing at least once: turn the table on the spammers and be the ones annoying them, so they can see what it costs Edited November 27, 2004 by TCH-Raul Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted November 27, 2004 Posted November 27, 2004 The Swedish ISP Spray has done this for a while too but I think they are owned by lycos (or atleast were) so it might explain why. Quote
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