Date: 21 Apr 2005 17:14:05 GMT From: Dave Hinz <DaveHinznospamcop.net> Subject: Re: scam
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:02:54 -0400, Malt_Hound <Malt_Houndnospamm*yahoo.com> wrote: > Dave Hinz wrote: >> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:52:30 -0400, Malt_Hound <Malt_Houndnospamm*yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> >>>I have sold 2 different cars on SAABnet. Curiously, the one that drew >>>the most scam activity was the 1992 9000T I listed for around $4k. I >>>got no less than 6 scam attempts on that one, all of them as easy to >>>spot as could be. Even if I had not read the warnings, it was blatant. >>>Makes me wonder what sort of fools would fall for this crap... >> >> >> I wonder why 'whazzizname the banninator' tolerates that sort of thing. >> You'd think he'd block them by IP so they can't use his board. > > It doesn't work that way, Dave. The Classifieds are viewable to any and > all, no login or account required. They just reply to the ad by regular > email. I understand that, but blocking website visitors by IP address is trivially easy. Not that I'm offering to help _him_ do it, mind you. It's just an observation that he seems selective in what he does something about. > The banning takes place only on that web site's message boards, which do > require a user account, hence the ability to ban. I can even serve different content to people if they're coming from one particular ISP, or one particular browser, or OS, or anything really. The user-agent string gives a LOT of useful information, and the IP address can be used to, say, give people from a certain ISP slower response (fewer available connections or throttled bandwidth), or to give them an alternate site, or to deny access entirely. Lots of stuff to play with at the webserver layer. But, scuze me, I need to go play with _our_ webserver layer now... Dave
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