2 Dec
2002
2 Dec
'02
11:29 p.m.
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