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Lycos screensaver fights SPAM

I can't even remember the last time I downloaded a screensaver, but I'm definitely going to check this one out. Lycos has apparently created a screensaver, developing on distributed computing ideas such as the seti@home project, and applied it to a more practical problem - spam.

Slashdot reports on it here: http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/11/26/2129238.shtml?tid=111

Lycos claims that the screensaver is not a real ddos because it doesn't take the site off-line entirely - one would assume this is to dodge legal repercussions I'll be waiting for the full ddos version... meanwhile sleeping well knowing that my PC is happily contributing to the fight against spam.

Only published comments... Dec 02 2004, 03:53 PM by Dave

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