Re: Proxy server in Belgium?


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"Osyrys" <indexai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Somebody emailed me, saying they are in London. I have several
reasons to believe this person is not who they say they are. So I
traced the email back to a TV/cable company in Belgium, using the
header info in the email. For reasons I will not get into, I believe
this to be accurate.

Is there a possibility that a yahoo email from the UK near London
would use a proxy server in Belgium? If so, why would it not show up
in the trace?

Thank you.


I just happen to be an expert on the use of proxies, since I have often
talked of people using proxies either from work, or from more
authoritarian countries to avoid filtering.


I found another trick to keep us out of the filtering lists of the
major filtering providers. I used Sam Spade to find the IP
ranges of the networks belonging to the like to WebSense,
SurfControl, Sentian, Bess and others, and entered rules
into my firewall, which blocks them from accessing my
web page. This way, their autmoated "bots" cannot scan
my site and categorise it. So I either stay out of filtering
lists, or get dropped when they go to scan my lists,
but it will appear as it my site is not there, so my site
either does not get categorised, or it gets dropped
from the filtering lists, which makes me accessible
in more schools and workplaces, many of which are
reliant on commercial filtering software to guard their
networks.

And blocking the filters from scanning my website
is LEGAL, and I CANNOT BE PROSECUTED
by either the filter vendors, or any of their customers
that depend on them to guard their networks. Its
MY server, and I am well within my rights to block
the filtering vendors' automated bots from accessing
my site and categorising it.

And I am seeing the differernce. I am seeing enough
listeners on our coverage of one skating event, that
the number of "standard" listeners (who can listen
without buying a Live 365 VIP membership) has
maxed out. And I am seeing connections from
office networks all over the place. I have 217
listners right now as I am writing this, nearly all
of them coming from office networks in Canada
and the USA, where it is still the working hours,
so more people can access my site without having
to resort to proxies.



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