Bots don't honor 301 :(

[jkinz at kinz.org]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:53:19AM -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
>   I remember what I considered one of the most effective efforts to
> shut down spammers, by simply taking away the cost insentive to use
> the service.  Unfortunatly, it was considered a counter attack, and
> hence shut down..
> 
>   Anyone recall the name of it?  It compiled URLs which spammers where
> pointing to, and basically had *everyone* on the network start pulling
> down those web pages.

IIRC that effort was shut down by concentrated counter attacks
by the spammers.  As for the name, all I can recall was it had
the word blue in it, I think.

it was a good idea but lacked sufficient distributed resources
and money to carry on the fight.

It also may have been a questionable technique due to the 
inability to prevent damage to innocent parties. 

For example, Spammer A wants to disrupt the website of someone they
don't like so they implement a small spam campaign on behalf of that
site and report it to the "blue-whatever" folks.  Result - that
someone's website get DDOS'ed by well intentioned but falsely aimed
folks.

Jeff Kinz.

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