RE: Removal of IP

["Fisayo Adeleke" <fisayo at steineng.com>]

::-----Original Message-----
::From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler at pobox.com]
::Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 10:27 AM
::To: Sunday Folayan
::Cc: Mensah Komla Agbessitse; afnog at afnog.org; ispan at ispan.org.ng;
::admin at skannet.com.ng
::Subject: Re: Removal of IP
::
::

::It also doesn't hurt to handle abuse complaints in the normal 
::way - i.e.
::track down the account, terminate it, and send back an 
::acknowledgement mail
::to the person who reported it - even if it's too late to stop 
::any more being
::sent from that account. If your customers pay you for the 
::service then you
::should be in quite a strong postion, because presumably you 
::have to check
::the identities of individuals when they sign up, so you can stop them
::signing up for new accounts in the future. Of course, if the scam is
::successful, they probably won't need to :-)

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 :-)

		-Fisayo

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