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Lycos antispam site taken offline
Jan Libbenga, The Register 2004-12-03

Lycos Europe appears to have taken down its controversial MakeLoveNotSpam site - temporarily, at least. The site now displays a graphic and the words "STAY TUNED." References to the site have also been removed from the Lycos Europe home page, where it was prominently featured, monitoring firm Netcraft reports.

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Lycos antispam site taken offline 2004-12-06
Brian C. Lane
It seems to me that Lycos must not have passed this one through their lawyers first. I'm all for doing all we can to fight spammers, but the potential for abuse of this system is great -- for example, what if it were possible to inject the IPs of sites you didn't like into the Lycos system? You've j...

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