Vigilante Marketing

Damn good job too. Spammers are nothing more than intruders. They should be banned. Anything that allows us, the innocent, to fight back should be applauded.

You know what kills me. Is how people are calling Lycos' 'solution' a vigilante tactic.

The question remains, who attacked whom first? Do you really think that Spam people was up-front and honest about what their intentions are/were?!? Why is fighting back, suddenly referred to as vigilantism, when no other agency has offered to be proactive against Spam as they have been with the National Do Not Call list?!

The only difference between telemarketers and spam, is the medium used . So when we stand up for ourselves and try to give back to the people who spam us, what they've been doing to us all this time. That's not vigilantism...

..that's poetic justice.

yeah, lets all take the law in to our own hands...
get a clue.

I'd pay $20/year for Hotmail and Yahoo! to send 100 e-mails or http requests a minute on my behalf to each and every spammer who has attempted to contact me.

Being branded a "vigilante" for fighting back should be no surprise in the world we live in today! But as everyone has so eloquently put it....stick it to 'em! I also would pay good $$$ for my email provider to send requests to spammers. They dont deserve any kind of protection. You attack me....I attack you, you fill my inbox with crap....I do the same to you! Wouldn't it be great? Cheers.

Look man, when your governments aren't doing their jobs you have no choice. There is many a great nation that was built by those decided they weren't going to take crap anymore and fixed it themselves. Lycos is doing the world a major service and we should all take advantage of it.

Peace.

we dun need spam..... attack them is the best way to show them (spammer) we hate them..

ps: support attacking spammer \m/

I hope they come back soon with a better plan but similar, it gives us (the computer users) a little satisfaction instead of the government doing it for us with laws and rules for spam that do nothing and give us little or no satisfaction.

When we are in a war (the US or any nation) we join together (an army) and fight, Well this is no different, we are being attacked, we joined an army and fought back!

It's a shame there's no screensaver for Linux that has the same functionality.

I don't get mad at spammers, I get even. I urge everyone to copy the URL spammers give, REMOVE the unique identifier, and sign up for a mortgage with false information. That odd to waste their time.

Michael S.

Since when is self-defence a crime? Spammer tries to punch you in the face with a bandwidth knuckleduster that he bought with your money. You push back and the spammer gets hit in the face. Who's at fault?

Imagine getting junk (paper) mail in your mailbox and a bill from the postmaster asking you to pay for the postage expenses for the commercial offers!

When spammers misuse bandwidth, it is commerce and free speech. When people fight back using the same weapon, it is breaking the law? C'mon! Let's have a level playing field.

I have a slick response to spammers. I use a macro program to generate a few thousand replys to the sender that expresses my anoyance. Even if it's a slave it always seems to work. I get only one or two spam shots a week. This past week I received zero. I use no filters or spam blockers.

seems to me that if everyone did the same, the problem would be solved rather soon.

Don, the problem is that spammers falsify their own email and ip addresses The only thing real in that SPAM mail is the link, so we should bust em with it. I think Lycos had a great idea and maybe someone in the open-source community will soon develop something like this.

We should all start posting copies of this screen saver on afternapster.com or some other alternative. If anyone has it and posts it, please let us all know.

So let me get this straight....People want everyone to get these programs to get rid of the annoyance of deleting things? Yea, I'd go for that. But with every action, there is an unintended response.

See, the biggest problem with spam aside from it a nuissence to our sparkly inbox, is that it is singlehandedly slowing down the entire internet's performance by filliing broadband paths with their junk. Now, if everyone had an anti-spam DoS tool, you'd have all the spam clogs in the pipes AND a billions of DoS http requests.

The solution does not lie in attacking the spammers. The solution is upgrading email standards to where a spammer can't tell if you've opened or received an email. Where you can click "Flag as SPAM" and it will notify the authorities.

But of course that is a pipe dream. So I say Nuke the suckers. They get what they deserve.

Check out www.spamitback.com.

These guys made much better software, a long time ago before this makelovenotspam.

I always thought the real solution to spam was invented in the 1700's

The bayonet.

If they want to pretend to not understand that this activity is not wanted, maybe we should stick some sense into them.

The new app should decentralize not only the attack tool (makelovenotspam already did), but also the spammers list (makelovenotspam failed and so died).

"Spammers List Files" (SLF) should be created by a reliable organization (like lycos, spamcop or a hero) and encoded with a verification algorithm before being delivered by P2P nets. The app should be able to identify a true SLF and refuse fakes using this algorithm.

The app would download a SLF identified by date and extension(like 190105.sfl) from P2P, try it and, if it's a fake, delete it and download a new one with a different HASH. Doing so would increase the number of true fonts and stop the proliferation of false fonts.

I have the idea, but not the programming skill. Feel free to develope it, my Hero!

From Spain,
putowindows98 at hotm@il

There's this other article around here that mentions this program called blue frog....If you guys haven't checked it out you should. It follows the links sent on emails and fills out form fields with removal requests, several thousand times.

Keep it going, thanks. I found exactly the information.

Keep it going, thanks. I found exactly the information.

Interseting home page you have)

Take care of it and keep it on the road!

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