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BBC NEWS : Anti-spam screensaver scrapped

12.6.2004 – 3:07 pm | by paul

So I had written a couple posts about a screen-saver from Lycos that was designed to attack spam sites. It was called “Make Love, Not Spam”. Apparently the campaign has been dropped after only a few days.

From BBC News…
“A contentious campaign to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers by flooding their sites with data has been dropped…” more…

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