[sclug] Wireless Broadband in Slough and Windsor areas

[John Dickson]

On Sun, 23 May 2004 00:31:17 +0100, Will Dickson 
<wrd at glaurung.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> John Mullins wrote:
>> A new wireless broadband service is starting in the Slough/Windsor area 
>> provided by www.netvigator.co.uk/
>> Has anybody any experience of this system on Linux? This is my 
>> correspondence with netvigator. It seems like it needs special software 
>> to make it work.
>
> Not entirely to the point, but I've just found a phishing spam in my 
> junk filter, which was originally spewed via their network. (Given the 
> amusingly broken english in the phish I'd assume that the netvigator 
> luser has been hijacked, rather than that they're the original 
> perpetrator.) Granted this isn't a pattern as yet, but nevertheless it 
> might be worth looking into; using a clueless or cluelessness-tolerant 
> ISP is liable to cause you grief further down the line.
>

Unfortunately you don't have any choice in the matter. Most ( maybe all) 
ISP's have now instituted monitoring their customers for open relays, but 
in the current situation they cannot trap those customers who have been 
taken over.  This requires centralised co-ordination like that provided by 
spamcop and a huge amount of effort (which nobody is willing to pay for) 
to clean up the mess.


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