{"id":2992,"date":"2004-12-10T16:30:36","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T23:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/12\/lycos-spam-killer-campaign\/"},"modified":"2004-12-10T16:30:36","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T23:30:36","slug":"lycos-spam-killer-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/10\/lycos-spam-killer-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Lycos Spam-killer campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tLycos has invented a completely brilliant method of combatting spam. It&#8217;s a screen saver that pings spam sites when you&#8217;re not doing anything else with your computer. The idea was to increase spammers&#8217; bandwidth bills, but it was so successful it completely knocked many of them offline, so they&#8217;re doing <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4065751.stm\">a bit of re-tooling:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A campaign by Lycos Europe to target spam-related websites appears to have been put on hold.<\/p>\n<p>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.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The screen saver was downloadable from the <a href=\"http:\/\/makelovenotspam.com\/\">Make Love not Spam<\/a> site, but no more. <\/p>\n<p>Pity.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lycos has invented a completely brilliant method of combatting spam. It&#8217;s a screen saver that pings spam sites when you&#8217;re not doing anything else with your computer. The idea was to increase spammers&#8217; bandwidth bills, but it was so successful it completely knocked many of them offline, so they&#8217;re doing a bit of re-tooling: A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/10\/lycos-spam-killer-campaign\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lycos Spam-killer campaign&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Mg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}