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Re: Networking in Africa...
From: David Charlap <David.Charlap () marconi com>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:27:49 -0500
So what exactly do people do in regards to Web spam? I block tcp/80 but would like to hear what others are doing.Block or rate limit? I would assume that blocking port 80 in a cybercafe wouldn't really work out in the long run.
One possible solution might be to force all traffic through a proxy, and have it cache all outgoing form traffic for several weeks. This way, if someone reports abuse, you can search the cache and find out who is doing it. From there, hopefully you'll have enough information to hand it over to law enforcement, or at least ban the customer from the cafe.
I don't know what (if any) legal right of privacy is in Nigeria, but I would suspect that a publicly posted policy notice (like "management reserves the right to monitor all traffic" and a strict TOS policy) should mitigate any legal concerns about doing this.
The only problems I see with this are hard drive space for the cache, and the possibility of spammers using secure web sites. Do any web-mail sites use https these days?
-- David
Current thread:
- Re: Networking in Africa..., (continued)
- Re: Networking in Africa... alex (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... fingers (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... Max's Lists (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... Hank Nussbacher (Dec 02)
- Re: Networking in Africa... Randy Bush (Dec 02)
- Re: Networking in Africa... Robbie Honerkamp (Dec 02)
- Re: Networking in Africa... Martin Hannigan (Dec 02)
- Re: Networking in Africa... alex (Dec 03)
- Fwd: Re: Networking in Africa... Hank Nussbacher (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... Matt Levine (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... David Charlap (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... alex (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... David Schwartz (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... David Charlap (Dec 03)
- Re: Networking in Africa... Matt Levine (Dec 03)