Anti-spam plan overwhelms sites

It seems the Lycos screensaver mentioned in today's Online (Inside IT news) is proving a bit too successful. BBC News reports that "monitoring firm Netcraft has analysed response times for three of the sites the screensaver targets and has found that the campaign is being too successful. Some sites are being knocked out by the anti-spam campaign Two of the sites being bombarded by data have been completely knocked offline. One other site has been responding to requests only intermittently as it struggles to cope with the traffic the screensaver is pointing its way."