[109614] in Cypherpunks
Re: Netscape Communicator 4.51 and spam.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Mar 30 23:20:54 1999
In-Reply-To: <37011E94.AAF11EE5@brainlink.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:52:16 -0700
To: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>, Niels Stenhoj <stenhoj@post6.tele.dk>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: "cypherpunks@Algebra.COM" <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM>
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 11:57 AM -0700 3/30/99, Sunder wrote:
>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.
On Macs, you open the TCP/IP control panel, Select Edit-->UserMode... and
switched to Advanced. Then you will have a "Select Hosts File" button.
There is a sample hosts file in the System Folder.
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