If you wonder why people don’t just go after spammers, vigilante-style, here’s why. Three Dutch blogging websites launched an online war against a U.S. spammer, Customerblast.com late last week, and found they’d bitten off more than they could chew. The weblogs, according to The Register, tried to push Customerblast off the web with sustained distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks (basically trying to overload their system with requests for data).
Customerblast fought back. On Friday, all three weblogs were inundated with mail bombs, floods and DDOS attacks, forcing them to go offline temporarily. Late Friday afternoon, the weblogs began a second attack. By Monday the spammer had still not recuperated from the attacks. But there’s been a downside. One of the Dutch attackers says he was cut off by his Internet Service Provider and now faces ?legal action?.