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It's been said many times, why are you repeating it and getting angry at it?

?:rolleyes::

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because many ppls still thinks its a DoS attack

i don't think Lycos would have released a screensaver like this if it was illegal;))

because many ppls still thinks its a DoS attack

i don't think Lycos would have released a screensaver like this if it was illegal ;)

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DoS stands for 'Denial of Service' right? Well by constantly requesting a web address many times in a short space of time, doesnt that slow down and possibly stop their 'service'?

Am I completely wrong here?

There are other ways of dealing with spammers apart from this.  Makes me think that the 'team' who thought of this gem were all 17 year old pimple faced geeks stoned off their asses.

I dont support this at all, and I do not support spammers.  There are better ways of fighting spam.

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Well i'd like to see some alternatives that work as well as this. Sorry but the spammers don't care what laws and regulations come in because they just keep on doing it. Yes, you're right - two wrongs do not make a right, but quite frankly (and despite my best efforts to be careful with my email address) I get around 130 spam emails a DAY to my main account, and am already getting spammed on my GMail account which I have hardly used. I'm sick of it.. its one of the THE curses on the internet, and I applaud Lycos for having the balls to just step up and do something simple and effective to help make a bit of a change.

DoS stands for 'Denial of Service' right?  Well by constantly requesting a web address many times in a short space of time, doesnt that slow down and possibly stop their 'service'?

Am I completely wrong here?

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http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=define...oS+attack&meta=

the screen saver accses the site only one time and then goes to acces another one

so logicaly its not a DoS attack since its not all coming form the same IP

Correct me if im wrong here, but aren't the spammer sites gonig to get savvy, and get our IP's and do something to us?

Would they be able to spam us [more], or hack us etc..??

I'm tempted to use this, but i'm not going to bother If its going to create spam in my inbox (and believe it or not, the most I get is maybe 1 every month, if im lucky)

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DoS stands for 'Denial of Service' right?  Well by constantly requesting a web address many times in a short space of time, doesnt that slow down and possibly stop their 'service'?

If you guys would have read the website, first off the max ammount of traffic your computer will use is 3.4 megs per 24 hours. This is not ddos, ddos is actually denying service. Distrubuted Denial of Service, would make the website not work at all, lycos is preventing this from happening but limiting the ammount of requests per website. They watch the website, ensure that it stays responsive. The idea is not to bring down the websites, its to make them pay for more their webhosting and colocation fees. In turn they pay their ISP more money for the bandwidth. This is good, I worked for an ISP that shelled out $5000 for a barracuda spam firewall, and roughly 2400 a year for updates. Why? Cause of freaking spammers. This is a damn good idea, as long as lycos theory works. I am sure a few good people will get shafted somehow. But if i get less spam, if i dont have to deal with customers yaking about spam as much my life gets easier. so go lycos.

nice post crimson :) summed it up very nicely. So what if they are getting annoyed at using their tactics against them. Spam sites (none legit) get into your pc and use it to forward spam to rest of the world. So why not use our pc to attack them back.

Bloody spammers. You go lycos! (P.S. I havent downloaded this screensaver yet)

Now when I attempt to run the screen saver it goes dark and says "Stay Tuned" in the upper-left corner.  I think Lycos might have run into a bit of trouble and had to temporarily shut this service down.

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yea me 2 :no:

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