Lycos has invented a completely brilliant method of combatting spam. It’s a screen saver that pings spam sites when you’re not doing anything else with your computer. The idea was to increase spammers’ bandwidth bills, but it was so successful it completely knocked many of them offline, so they’re doing a bit of re-tooling:
A campaign by Lycos Europe to target spam-related websites appears to have been put on hold.
Earlier this week the company released a screensaver that bombarded the sites with data to try to bump up the running costs of the websites.
The screen saver was downloadable from the Make Love not Spam site, but no more.
Pity.