[danielf]

Originally Posted by Richard M

What a sad ending to what was an excellent idea.
The spammers have won again.

It appears some would disagree:

Originally Posted by computerworld

The [Make Love, Not Spam] application isn't really all that well thought out. In a way, it's doing a DDOS attack, and DDOS attacks are always a bad thing, because there are always innocent bystanders who get hit as well," he said.

"I would have to characterize it as an astonishingly stupid idea," said John Levine, co-chair of the Internet Research Task Force's Antispam Research Group.

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"This is like a lame idea that a college kid would think of, not something a serious company would do," Levine said.