Fighting a spam fire with a DDoS

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Wednesday 01 December 2004 04:14 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:

> FYI, Lycos people now say this is a hoax.
> They say they have not done this.

Link?

For what it's worth:

The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/26/lycos_europe_spam_blitz/
CNET: 
http://news.com.com/Lycos+Europe+Make+love+not+spam/2100-7349_3-5471207.html
ZDNET: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39175487,00.htm
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4051553.stm

It's Lycos _Europe_ that's supposedly doing this.  I heard news reports 
yesterday as the total number of downloads swept past 70,000 to 100,000 by 
evening.  Today http://www.makelovenotspam.com is down - a victim of it's own 
success, or retaliatory DOS?