[53900] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Networking in Africa...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (fingers)
Mon Dec 2 16:59:58 2002
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:59:35 +0200 (SAST)
From: fingers <fingers@fingers.co.za>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20021202215557.12241.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> There seem to be a lot of ISPs who get little slices of IP from
> satellite carriers like emperion.net in Denmark. Much of the 419 spam
> I get from Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and other west African
> countries originates in cybercafes with satellite links.
i don't know if I've ever actually received 1 of those spam messages from
a host inside Nigeria