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Originally posted by AndreY
Unethical ?? What's unethical, spamming innocent people to death with fucking penis enlargement mails, or pinging the companie's websites to death ? Calling this unethical is totally stupid. The definition of unethical is: "not conforming to approved standards of social or professional behavior" If these spam-companies are considered as "ethically correct", then, good night, let the spam rule the world. As distributing spam is not ethically correct, fighting the people who distribute spam can't be accused of beeing unethical from my point of view.
By calling one method (used by lycos) unethical they don't say the other method (used by spammers) is ethical. In fact _both_ methods can be considered unethical...
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Originally posted by AndreY
Exactly. That's the point, it isn't designed as a DDoS attack, it just slows the sites down, increases the spammers bills and doesn't hurt anyone exept the spammer (and Lycos' servers).
It has the same effect. No matter how it is "designed". Read the article further: they stated also that many other sites have been down due to this lycos attack. also they state that other companies who don't have anything todo with the spam-sites can be effected too if they happen to be on the same server.
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Originally posted by AndreY
Is spamming ethical ?? Doesn't spamming contravene with "accepted protocols" ? How can people see fucking ethics everywhere, they're just websites owned by companys that distribute huge amounts of spam all around the web and increase the amount of traffic.
Again, by saying that what lycos is doing is unethical, they do _not_ say that what spammers are doing is ethical...
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Originally posted by AndreY
Of course Anti-spam companies are against fighting spam, they would without spam and probably even support spammers.
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Originally posted by AndreY
The problem is that antispam companies or providers will never act against spammers because they are a huge source of income.
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Originally posted by AndreY
Of course some webcompanies will be affected but whoever cooperates with Spammers is a half illegal subject himself.
Several companies who have _nothing_ in common can still be on the same server; Being on the same server has _nothing_ to do with being affiliates. It could be that they are affiliated, but also in many cases they are not.
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Originally posted by AndreY
it is not meant to be a DDoS attack
The result is the same.
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Let's send a B52 and drop some cluster bombs on the server-complex.
Hu? Illegal? Unethical? Why? It isn't a DDoS attack, isn't it?
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