Thread: lycos's spam offensive
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Old 02-12-2004, 12:19   #23
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Re: lycos's spam offensive
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Originally Posted by Chris T
It appears that the screensaver has been more popular than Lycos bargained for, resulting in some spam websites actually being taken down completely or being rendered effectively unuseable.
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If they are on a shared server (or shared connection in a Data Centre), then DDOSing Spam sites like this could very well knock innocent sites of the web..


Much better to do what some enterprising people at /. (slashdot) did... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/12...s_junk_mailed/
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