Lycos Ends AntiSpam Effort, Denies Downing Spam Sites

[Alexandru Ungur]

Lycos Europe says it is officially ending its MakeLoveNotSpam anti-spam campaign, saying the controversial campaign has accomplished its objectives. The company also said traffic from users of the MakeLoveNotSpam screensaver wasn't responsible for outages at two spammer sites targeted during the attacks.

"Lycos has decided to close down its Make Love, Not Spam website," said spokesperson Malte Pollmann. "The aim of the campaign was to ignite a debate about anti-spam measures. We feel that we have achieved this through our activity and will now continue that debate with others in the email industry. We hope that this will lead to further new and innovative solutions to the problem of spam."

That was a nice campaign, too bad it ended...
Read the entire article here: news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/12/06/lycos_ends_antispam_effort_denies_downing_spam_sites.html

 

[temi]

Ummm,
It should be extended, no ended

 

[Alexandru Ungur]

Exactly! Especially that it did work out quite nice, put to sleep a few of the big SPAM sites....

 

[Paul_KY]

Does Lycos receive even 1% of the Search marketshare? :roll:

 

[OldWelshGuy]

It was way too risky. I could bring black hat methods into play, spam by spoofing, and bring down the server of a competitor. How in Gods name can a serious player instigate what is effectively a DDOS attack? 2 wrongs don't make a right