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> > i don't know if I've ever actually received 1 of those spam messages fromInterestingly enough, I got the following today from a Cybercafe in Nigeria that I had blocked: >Thanks for the prompt response to the problem with our IP address. >I have alreday instructed all staff to be more vigilant and we are going >through the list of people who came around that time on saturday to track >down who sent this email. >I am in the process of buying a cybercafe management software which allows >the administrator to look at diffrent PCs and see what people are doing so >that if we spot things like this we will stop it. >Furthermore, I have instructed my team to program the webcams to take >snapshot of the shop every 20 minutes so that we can see who was in the shop >at what time. >I have also made sure we have notices put up in the cafe to say we do not >tolerate email spamming and anybody caught will be reported to the >autorities for appropriate action >However, I must stress that this is a cybercafe where 100% of people who >come there use web based email and there is no software or mechanism to stop >spamming from web based emails. You can see from the mail that was sent that >the person put a web based email address as the return address. Therefore I >cannot guarantee that this will not happen again , I can only put measures >in place to deter people. If there is any software you know about that would >prevent this or mechanism please let me know and I will put it in place >immediately >I am surprised however that there is no responsibility placed on providers >of web based emails who are in the best position to filter out and prevent >such emails from being delivered. >I hope all the measures highlighted above will be enough for you to go to >the ISP to reactivate our blocked IP > >cheers >Adeyinka So what exactly do people do in regards to Web spam? I block tcp/80 but would like to hear what others are doing. Regards, Hank
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