"Make Love not Spam"
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A new weapon against spammers. It's about time someone does something about these spamming con artists. Maybe we all should sign up for this.

CNN reports:
At the risk of breaching Internet civility, Lycos Europe is offering computer-users a weapon against spam-spewing servers: a screen-saver program that automatically hits the offenders with data to slow them down.

Around 65,000 people already signed up for the offensive, called "Make Love not Spam" before Tuesday's official launch on a website by the same name, the company said. It is urging its 22 million users to download the screen-saver, but says anyone with a computer is welcome to it.

The company insists the technique is legal -- it says the culprit servers are simply choked a bit, not completely asphyxiated -- and dismissed concerns that computers which ping servers blamed for unwanted Internet traffic are further clogging the world's digital pipeline.

The program activates whenever a computer equipped with it goes into standby mode, and sends so-called HTTP get-requests to what Lycos says are servers known to generate unsolicited e-mails. When done en masse, this eats up precious bandwidth, causing the servers to overload and slow down, the company said.
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hbk101 Wrote:A new weapon against spammers. It's about time someone does something about these spamming con artists. Maybe we all should sign up for this.

CNN reports:
At the risk of breaching Internet civility, Lycos Europe is offering computer-users a weapon against spam-spewing servers: a screen-saver program that automatically hits the offenders with data to slow them down.

Around 65,000 people already signed up for the offensive, called "Make Love not Spam" before Tuesday's official launch on a website by the same name, the company said. It is urging its 22 million users to download the screen-saver, but says anyone with a computer is welcome to it.

The company insists the technique is legal -- it says the culprit servers are simply choked a bit, not completely asphyxiated -- and dismissed concerns that computers which ping servers blamed for unwanted Internet traffic are further clogging the world's digital pipeline.

The program activates whenever a computer equipped with it goes into standby mode, and sends so-called HTTP get-requests to what Lycos says are servers known to generate unsolicited e-mails. When done en masse, this eats up precious bandwidth, causing the servers to overload and slow down, the company said.

Hmm never heard of that.... HTTP get-requests? Has anyone ever heard of that?
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what happens when two computers make love ? do they create a PDA ?
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Naruto Wrote:what happens when two computers make love ? do they create a PDA ?


LMAO Nah they make a laptop LMAO Two Laptops make a PDA ha-ha LMAO
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Puppet Master Wrote:LMAO Nah they make a laptop LMAO Two Laptops make a PDA ha-ha LMAO

So what two things screw to get a PC?
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Maybe two servers?
Microsoft and Intel?
Bill Gate and another woman?
A computer geek and a palm computer (a bad pun)
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Two Super Computers I guess and anywhere beyond that is a good question lol
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