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Web News: Lycos Europe anti-spam Screensaver bites the dust!

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04-December-04, 12:03 PM

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Web News: Lycos Europe anti-spam Screensaver bites the dust!

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	Although close on 100,000 people downloaded the free screensaver, it received a great deal of criticism. Many believed it lowered itself to the tactics of the spammers themselves and could have caused more problems than it solved. The Lycos Europe anti-spam screensaver was designed to repeatedly request information from Web sites advertised on spam, effectively lowering the performance of those sites and increasing their bandwidth costs.

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