The BBC reports that Lycos Europe's Make Love, Not Spam campaign has ceased after complaints over its spam-fighting practices. The campaign offered a screensaver which the BBC said, "would endlessly request
data from the net sites mentioned in many junk mail messages."
It was an online version of fight fire with fire. Netcraft, a
traffic monitoring company, did report that the screensaver successfully knocked some of the spammers offline. Lycos has pulled the campaign and said in a statement that the campaign was just meant to stimulate debate.
