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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 2004-12-09
Anonymous
Glad to see that clearer heads prevailed on this one. This was one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard.

Didn't your momma ever tell you that two wrongs don't make a right? I hate spam as much as anyone, but fighting spam by DOSing the spammers is not the solution. And what criteria determines...

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