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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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There's nothing to say that a network 'has to' receive an email. There really is no legal grounds if an IP offers it's a customers an opt-in service which will automatically bounce all mail from IPs/subnets on their black list.

Let an ISP host a spammer, but also let the public know that you'll be blocking traffic from that ISP and why.


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