Re: Removal of IP

[Sunday Folayan <sfolayan at skannet.com.ng>]

On Sun, 4 May 2003, Brian Candler wrote:

> On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 08:46:11PM +0100, Fisayo Adeleke wrote:
> > The major problem is that most times, it's not the customers who paid you
> > for the service (i mean the account holder) that sends such spams, most
> > times these spammers are mobile users that move from one internet cafe to
> > another and this makes it hard to wield the big stick on the account
> > holders who claim they've done enough to place notices in their cafes
> > prohibiting spams. Many are not also able to put in place any needed
> > checks to solve it technically outside the banner notices :-)
>
> Ah. If this is a cybercafe where you are allowed to plug your own laptop in,
> then I see the problem.
>
> Do you block port 25, to force people to use your smarthost for sending
> outgoing mail? I'd say you were entitled to, at least for these cybercafes.

Brian,

They spam using http not smtp. smtp is blocked, but you cannot do that for
http. They don't send one, they have programs that send thousands within
an hour, just changing recipient addresses. BTW. I also get some addressed
to me, since I figure they bought addresses on CD.

Sunday.



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