Re: [squid-users] Mass Mailers & Spiders

2003-07-19 Thread Adam Aube
>clients that come to use the systems in the cafe do so, its used to >do mass telemarketing in form of scam mails >>Your best bet would be to find some unique characteristic of the >>spider (such as the User Agent string) and setup a delay pool to >>slow it way down. You indicated you tried this b

Re: [squid-users] Mass Mailers & Spiders

2003-07-19 Thread Chijioke Kalu
Thanks so much, that was a wonderful response, you got me going, there is some hope ;), let me answer some of the questions u posed >Does someone know how Mass Mailers and Spiders can be blocked via >squid from functioning? Mass mailers generally use SMTP over port 25, which Squid has nothing to

Re: [squid-users] Mass Mailers & Spiders

2003-07-19 Thread Adam Aube
>Does someone know how Mass Mailers and Spiders can be blocked via >squid from functioning? Mass mailers generally use SMTP over port 25, which Squid has nothing to do with. Spiders, on the other hand, do use HTTP, and Squid can be part of the solution there. >I actually tried using HTB to rest

[squid-users] Mass Mailers & Spiders

2003-07-19 Thread Chijioke Kalu
lo squidsters, Does someone know how Mass Mailers and Spiders can be blocked via squid from functioning? It seems to draw up more bandwidth even when I used delay pool to restrick it on a system to just 2K ( ;) i really wanted to slow it down if i couldnt stop it) I actually tried using HTB t