[53918] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Networking in Africa...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Mon Dec 2 23:30:01 2002
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:29:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@fugawi.net>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: fingers <fingers@fingers.co.za>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212021407130.21663-100000@sasami.anime.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, fingers wrote:
> > i don't know if I've ever actually received 1 of those spam messages from
> > a host inside Nigeria
>
> About 45% of the nigerian scams I receive originate directly from nigerian
> IPs, another 45% originate from a2000.nl in the netherlands, and the last
> 10% from lagos.
Someone folks may remember from the list way back, Robbie Honkerkamp,
is working in Africa building net.
Here's an sample:
http://www.tangaza.com/Home/IntroStatic.html
http://www.rufaa.com/
Anyhow, I think the big problem in Africa is pipe size. It's
pretty neat that with small pipes people put up such big websites.
-M
