Anti-spammers turn into DOS spammers themselves

It has always been tempting to fight fire with fire in the spam wars. Now Lycos UK has a screensaver that makes it easy. Digital Media Europe: News - Lycos UK turns anti-spam vigilante. Basically it uses spare cycles to spam the blacklist sites. I don’t think it will matter as there are many ways to counter such an attack. I also worry that many blacklists are corrupt and i may be sending spam to valid domains. But I am going to try it anyway. The site Make Love Not Spam is down now because a cleaver spammer redirected the attack back to the site.