The well-intentioned and perhaps overly-aggressive - and quite possibly illegal - campaign by Lycos Europe to create a distributed computing network of users that would collectively execute denial of service attacks on alleged spam server sites has been taken down, according to eCommerce Times. A Lycos Europe statement said that the campaign had already served its purpose by raising awareness. But Lycos experienced problems when the alleged spammers redirected their own addresses to Lycos's servers, effectively focusing at least some of the denial of service attack on itself. Lycos denied this was the reason it stopped the campaign. The Lycos Europe site was also reportedly defaced with threats implying that people participating in the denial of service attack - by downloading the Make Love Not Spam screensaver - would be reported to their respective internet service providers.

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