[pchelpers] News:Spammers Beware: There's A New Frog In Town.

Posted on 05/23/2006 @ 12:13:08 in Spam.

Blue Frog's dead. But a new crew has picked up the cudgel. Calls itself 
The Okopipi Collective, after a poisonous frog.

And its rallying cry goes like this:

     Blue Frog was a great idea. They showed us that we can bring pain 
to the spammers. But they could not keep up the pressure. They weren't 
ready for war. We are!

Like the Blue Frog initiative, Okopipi plans to file one opt-out request 
per spam, even somehow throttling bandwidth to thoughtfully avoid 
overwhelming the spammer's website.

But this time, the developers plan to deploy a distributed peer-to-peer 
network (P2P), to (hopefully) dissipate any Distributed Denial of 
Service (DDoS) counterattacks, like those that leveled Blue Security, 
along with Six Apart, Tucows, Prolexic, UltraDNS and millions of their 
innocent, non-involved customers.

More here:
http://www.emailbattles.com/archive/battles/spam_aadhdjdchh_ce/
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