"Spammers don't go to Cybercafés to send spam." Oh yes they do !
We see lots of phishing and 419 / lottery scams coming from Cybercafes. The average spammer likes to work from home, the average scammer likes the anonymity of Cybercafes. Cigan - you have a very difficult problem. If you scan content sent to Yahoo / Hotmail, the spammers will change to another webmail service or abuse badly configured cgi scripts. In any case a mail filtering program like SpamAssassin is configured to work on *email* rather than http streams. Hats off to you for attempting to address the problem. I would hazard a guess that asking for ID and visibly writing down the name against a machine / IP address would probably be a technologicaly simple approach, which would be a very strong deterent and would result in the criminal fraternity going elsewhere. Martin -----Original Message----- From: Peter P. Benac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 November 2004 01:20 To: 'Cigan Segun'; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: spamassassin and web based mail ! There is always a way; however, do you have the resources to program such an effort? You might be able to modify an Open Source Proxy Server, but even then it will be a effort. You are still missing the major point here. Spammers don't go to Cybercafés to send spam. Why should they go to a cybercafé when they can use there own connections and sit in the comfort of their own home and use Yahoo, MSN or Hotmail. Remember these idiots think they have a legal right to spam the world, so they aren't going to hide in your Cybercafé. I'd be more concerned about Script kiddies, and wannabe hackers using your cybercafé to upload their dirty work, and a good virus scanner can fix that. Regards, Pete ---- Peter P. Benac, CCNA Celtic Spirit Network Solutions Providing Network and Systems Project Management and Installation and Web Hosting. Phone: 919-618-2557 Web: http://www.emacolet.com Need quick reliable Systems or Network Management advice visit http://www.nmsusers.org To have principles... First have courage.. With principles comes integrity!!! -----Original Message----- From: Cigan Segun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 2:35 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re:spamassassin and web based mail ! Is there any way a LINUX box can be configured to solve the problem of checking the mail contents of every http that passes through the linux box? Regards. Cigan. Moving house? Beach bar in Thailand? New Wardrobe? Win £10k with Yahoo! Mail to make your dream a reality. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
