Lycos anti-spam screensaver discarded

A campaign to fight spam by Internet portal Lycos Europe http://www.lycos-europe.com has been dropped. As the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk reports, the "Make Love, Not Spam" campaign has been shut down after Lycos claimed to have achieved their aim of stimulating debate about anti-spam measures. The anti-spam screensaver, which began in late November, was heavily criticised for encouraging "spamming-type" tactics against senders of junk mail and for being on the edge of the law.