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Bad Idea: Black Frog Picks Up Where Blue Frog Left Off

Greg Sandoval writes on C|Net News:

Spammers beware--hostile amphibians are once again rising against you.

First there was Blue Frog, a community antispam effort that stopped operating last week after Blue Security, the company that started the project, came under a withering denial-of-service attack.

Out of the ashes comes Black Frog, part of a project that is apparently willing to become a flag bearer in the fight against spam. The project, dubbed Okopipi, is developing the Black Frog antispam software and service as an open-source project, according to the group's wiki.

"This project aims to become a distributed replacement of antispam software Blue Frog," the Okopipi wiki states.

This should be quite entertaining. Sounds like a death wish for their service to me, considering what happened to Blue Security.

More here.

posted by Fergie @ 5/24/2006 06:32:00 PM