Attached Link: Blue Frog and Six Appart

Kuroyume, it's interesting that you mention DDOS attacks and redirection of the stream of data, as Blue Frog did exactly this with the first wave... and landed the nice bill on Six Appart's footstep. For those that don't know, Six Appart is the company behind LiveJournal, Movable Type and TypePad. [More information here](http://q.queso.com/archives/001917). For those who do not want to read the whole article, here's what happened in a nutshell: BlueFrog got attacked and redirected all traffic to the company's blog, hosted by SixAppart. How anybody that has the knowledge to do this could have failed to realise it would cripple SixAppart sites is beyond me.  So any company that thinks this was a correct course of action is a little suspicious in my book.

It also happens that some people had issues with BlueFrog's methods . I happen to think those concerns were well placed: I'm all up for fighting spam, but I know enough of web hosting to know that a retaliation the sort they were trying to push, aside from being way too close to a DDOS itself, would cripple lots of other people on the same server/ISP.  I don't think that is right. Enough so that when MailWasher came with the offer to sign up to Blue Frog, after reading about their methods I decided to decline.

I'm not saying that what the spammers did was right: it wasn't, by any extent of imagination. However, I also don't think that Blue Frog was playing by the rules either. This doesn't make it right to attack it, but doesn't make me mourn their demise too much either.

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