Ok, if you are talking about attacking the spammers bus I fully agree. But attacking a web host without first giving them a chance to boot the spamvertizer is like attacking a bus driver that didn't know what one of his passengers was going to do so he couldn't have stopped it. All the other passengers on this hypothetical bus also have no warning so they can't do anything to prevent the bad guy from doing wrong to begin with. Actually they have no way of know and no authority to do anything. This is not black and white here, there is a grey area where some web hosts have no idea their clients may hire a third party to spam about their site. Attacking someone like that is just wrong! Why is it some people are having such a hard time wrapping their mind around this concept?
I went to the Lycos site to learn what I can about their approach. No where did I read that they first warn the entity that is hosting their site. I know that any of us would drop the spamvertizer without a second thought, hence not needing Lycos to attack us to get the point across and us needing to figure out how what and why it's happening before we can put a stop to it. We have several sites that share the same IP, if that IP is attacked it would take a while to sort out the target and shut it down. In the meantime everyone else we host is a innocent victim. Any Internet professional that lacks the ability to comprehend this should find another occupation IMHO. If Lycos notifies before the attack, I to will put a screen saver on every one of our machines! If not, anyone taking part is foolish IMHO. It's the mentality of a lynch mob. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason @ AreaTech Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites > That is like saying since someone on a bus shot at you, it's ok to blow up > the bus and kill innocent people. Yes. That's exactly what we are saying. Since the bus driver/bus company will not do ANYTHING to stop the shooter. It is currently too profitable for the Bus company to keep people off the bus that have automatic weapons, so they look the other way. Regards, Jason To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
