In a major bonehead move, Lycos Europe created and distributed a screensaver that is aimed at illegally shutting down websites of known spammers, but is in reality in the process of unintentionally DDoSing (Distributed Denial of Service) their own antispam campaign website. When I posted this, their own site was completely unreachable (effectively shut down). They really should have seen this one coming.

In any case, they're going to get themselves sued by the innocent victims of this 'vigilance justice' they're trying to pull. Illegal is illegal, and what they're doing is plainly breaking the law. They've crossed the line, and have now joined the 'bad guys', despite their 'good' intentions.

"Blog" was the most searched-for word in the dictionary this year. Interesting.