[109594] in Cypherpunks
Re: Netscape Communicator 4.51 and spam.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sunder)
Tue Mar 30 14:18:42 1999
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:57:24 -0500
From: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>
To: Niels Stenhoj <stenhoj@post6.tele.dk>
CC: "cypherpunks@Algebra.COM" <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM>
Reply-To: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>
Easy. This is a nasty that Netscape introduced with 4.5. Every time you read
your email it opens up a web page from messenger.netscape.com in the email
pane.
If your computer allows you to change TCP/IP routes, find what machine the
spam is coming from, likely messenger.netscape.com, add its IP in your route
table and make it go nowhere.
ie.
route add x.x.x.x mask 255.255.255.255 y.y.y.y
Where the x's are the IP of the spammer, and the y's are an unused ip address
on your network.
This works fine for NT and unixen, not sure if Winblows 9x has a route
command. Mac's are out of luck.
You can do the same for most places web sites that point to another server.
i.e. ads.blah.com. The banner ads will show up as broken links.
Unfortunatly, not all web sites have them on different boxes, and with
Netscape, if you ever want to go back to messenger.netscape.com, you'll have
to remove your bad route.
Niels Stenhoj wrote:
>
> When I download email using the above proggie I receive a page at the
> bottom of the screen with spam from Netscape.
>
> I believe it slows down the transmission speed of my downloads and I
> suspect that it is sometimes responsible for unexplainable breakdowns
> of the line.
>
> Does anyone have a patch or a method of removing this facility/inconvenience?
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