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Lycos Goes Straight
Mark Rasch, 2004-12-06

After a week of well-deserved criticism, Lycos is abandoning its scheme to launch denial-of-service attacks against spammy websites. Did the company reform in time to avoid criminal prosecution?

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Lycos Goes Straight - Mark doesn't get it 2004-12-07
Reader (3 replies)
Lycos Goes Straight - Mark doesn't get it 2004-12-07
Anonymous (1 replies)
True, Lycos purpose was to increase the cost of spam. The problem is, the method was potentially illegal. Agreed though - in order to reduce the amount of spam in circulation, the financial reward needs to be removed - make it too expensive to continue to spam...

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