[Mimedefang] Lycos Screensaver that attacks Spammers

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Thursday, December 02, 2004 4:30 PM -0500 WBrown at e1b.org wrote:

> Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
> Guess who gets eaten.

I've always loved that quote.

> No, we're not vigilantes when we filter spam.

I stand corrected.

My concern with the term "vigilante" is only that it imbues additional 
legitimacy to actions taken by governments, and we just need to remember 
how fallible they are. I, too, believe in the rule of law, but I don't 
think individuals need be excluded from enforcing it. It's the law, not the 
choice of enforcer, that's important.

Again, it's what Lycos is doing (arguably illegal), not the fact that it's 
Lycos doing it, that's the problem.