Paul McNett wrote:
> Carl Karsten wrote:
>
>> My dream has come true:
>>
>> "Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests
>> data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam
>> e-mail."
>>
>> "The screensaver is due to be launched across Europe on 1 December and
>> before now has only been trialled in Sweden."
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4051553.stm
>>
>> Guess what I install tomorrow?
>
>
> Oh sheesh Carl, that's like launching nukes against Russia to save the
> whales. Or torturing and murdering Iraqi civilians to fight terrorism.
>
> (Does the solution fit the problem? Doesn't it make it worse by adding
> yet even more waste traffic to the already bloated internet
> infrastructure?)
>
They address that. kinda (low client side, so it will only jam up the
server side). I think it is worth the cost. I hear it is how spammers
were dealt with in the early days: mail bomb the account that is sending
spam and get the account looked at by an admin.
Carl K
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