Interesting concept... Lycos users are to attack spammers with screen saver...

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In its campaign "Make Love, Not Spam", Lycos Europe is now sending a very special screen saver to its users. This program for Windows or MacOS constantly visits websites for which spam has been sent. "The more users download and use the screen saver, the lower the performance of the sites sending out the spam, and the greater the costs for the operators," Lycos explained.

Apparently, the portal operator is banking on a large number of its European users - 20 million according to its own figures - to actually download the screen saver. If it is activated, it shows a map indicating where the web server currently being attacked is located. Various permanently displayed live data show how many users are currently taking part in the attack and whether the performance of the server under attack is suffering to the extent desired. Currently, Lycos is waging war against the notorious spammers blacklisted at Spamcop.

via: heise online - Lycos users are to attack spammers

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