JHoagland opened this issue on Feb 24, 2006 ยท 31 posts
Jimdoria posted Mon, 27 February 2006 at 2:31 PM
BlueFrog doesn't target the spammers themselves, but targets the spammers' CUSTOMERS: the advertisers who are paying spammers to send out e-mail blasts ontheir behalf. After all, most spam is trying to sell you somehting. There must be a way for you to contact the merchant and buy the "something" otherwise, why advertise? So BlueFrog innundates the merchant's website with bogus orders and request to stop sending spam to BlueFrog members. Rather than trying to stop the spammers directly, BlueFrog is an attempt to drive them out of business by taking away their paychecks. It's not a DDOS in the classic sense, since it makes use of the facilities the merchant has supplied to enable commerce, rather than exploiting a flaw in the merchant's server software or the structure of the internet - Jimdoria ~@>@