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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 2004-12-13
Anonymous
Nah, it wasn't about stopping spam, increasing the cost of spam. It was about advertising their email service.

Now the goal has been reached [tons of free publicity] it has been stopped....

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