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Welcome to #taja/TTi Everyone, TLC®... The Learning
Channel!!!
Revised:
#taja/TTi
Disclaimer
All Links, Coding, html, or Information Provided On these web pages are copyrighted to their respective owners, and have no direct affiliation with #taja/TTi on the mIRC network, or TajaTech, Intl. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE OR #taja/TTi. By using this site, you signify your assent to these terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms of use please do not use the site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of TajaTech Networks following the posting of changes to these terms (including but not limited to the Taja http or ftp servers) will mean you accept those changes.
Services
#taja/TTi provides Web Link services to individuals for free, in exchange for links
or information and in compliance with all of the terms and conditions. Taja services consist of
information resources provided by #taja/TTi's on-line communications vendors, and subsidiary
companies. These include access telecommunications and information services provided via the
global Internet.
#taja/TTi Online services include access to discussion groups and chat groups
on-line. Some of these discussion and chat groups may contain language or images that are
intended for adults only. #taja/TTi Online discourages this activity on our system but maintains no
direct control over where you, as a Subscriber, go on the Internet. Subscribers under 18 years
of age must have parental or legal guardianship approval to utilize such services. TajaTech, and #taja/TTi on mIRC Undernet Servers are not responsible for any minor viewing of
adult materials they may see on that network.
Terms of Use
#taja/TTi makes no warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied, for the
service it is providing. #taja/TTi disclaims any warranty of merchantability or fitness for particular
purpose.
#taja/TTi will not be responsible for any damage you suffer from use of its services
including, but not limited to, loss of data, delays, miss-deliveries, or service interruptions caused
by #taja/TTi's negligence or your own errors or omissions. #taja/TTi reserves the right to impose
limitations on the size of files that can be transferred via electronic mail, at any time. We also reserve the right to end your service with us without notice; we further reserve the right to limit your account size and the size of files in that account to prevent illegal downloading. Services are checked on a regular basis.
As a #taja/TTi Member you are responsible for all use or misuse, of the channel/service your visitors go to with or
without your knowledge or consent. You are responsible for them for whatever service they use on TTi, if they break the law, you are responsible!
#taja/TTi may only be used for lawful purposes. The use of the Internet may not be used to
solicit or conspire about illegal activities. The account holder agrees not to use the account for
any illegal activities, including but not limited to:
The storage, transmission, or distribution of child pornography, harassment, or threats. This includes anyone using the service to pose as a child trying to get someone to solicit them, and while this may go against law enforcement I feel that letting anyone do it for any reason even the law is unethical and illegal.
The storage, transmission, or distribution of protected material, without the express
written permission of the holder of such protected rights.
Using the Internet to solicit or conspire about illegal activities.
In addition to the above guidelines, #taja/TTi services may not be used for any of the
following:
Fraud or falsifying one's identity
Improper advertising
Chain letters and pyramid schemes
Unsolicited e-mail
Disruption or denial of service
Misuse of other services
Mail bombing and mail drop misuse
Misuse of abuse reporting
Inappropriate Usenet postings
Storing, transmitting, or distributing harmful files
Security violations of any #taja/TTi service or another service provider, do not think just because you're using a proxy we can't find you to enforce this rule.
IRC abuse
Reselling
Sale/Resale/Distribution of Copyrighted or Protected Materials/Documents/Movies/Music no matter what country you're in. (repeated here because no one seems to grasp the concept that copyrighted materials belong to the owner not you)
Violation Handling
A violation of any part of the Terms and Conditions may result in any one or more of the
following:
Verbal or written notification
Suspension of your Ops, or Channel Privy
Server K-Line or Server Ban
Removal or cancellation of User Ops, or Privy
Channel Ban
Legal action
Legal action where TTi may be asked to provide testimony against you.
Legal action by other entities, brought to their attention by TTi. (We have no problems telling people you screwed up.)
Cancellation of your account, which would include any of the following: ftp/http/email/forum or other service you are a party too.
While (#taja/TTi) is not under any obligation to act on any violation. #taja/TTi has no liability for any
loss, damages, or hardship resulting from any action taken against your account in response to a
violation. #taja/TTi will participate in any legal action against you if you violate any of these terms. Just because we don't have an obligation to doesn't mean we won't!
See also, Rules for mIrc Users
See also, Privacy Statement, this covers all services.
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SPAM: What is being done to combat it. |
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This page is to inform both our
customers and the general public what is being done to
combat the growing issue of spam emanating from
wholesale suppliers in the wake of the enormous growth
of our business. If you have a need to report a spammer,
please do so by sending as much detailed information
about the offender as possible to the following
address:
Email Spam info to: abuse@taja.org Our staff will take your
complaints very seriously and do all they are able to in
any way to eliminate the originator of the UCE
violation.
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Introduction |
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Spam is a problem that is beginning to
have a serious impact on the continued success of the
Tajatech service and our customers. Due to the
overwhelming growth of the Wholesale Dial-up market
there has been an unfortunate expansion of spam
originating from these Wholesale Dial-up ports. With
hundreds of ISPs utilizing the Wholesale services to
expand their national footprint, the likelihood of a
spammer signing up with an ISP using the Wholesale
services is rapidly increasing.
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Background |
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The way spam is typically sent has
continually evolved as new ways to combat and block it
have been developed. The current trend in sending spam
employs software that runs over a dial-up connection and
connects directly to the mail port of the target. This
is the hardest to block because it doesn't pass through
any "mail relay" servers, on which anti-spam filters
could be employed. The target has difficulty in stopping
the attack without also blocking other legitimate mail
from coming through. Once a spammer is identified, the
account can be quickly identified and
terminated.
However, due to the success of the
internet and the ISP market, many accounts can be
obtained on a trial basis for little or no money,
accounts can be activated over the phone with falsified
information, and other tricks can be used to gain a
"throw-away" account. ISPs can combat the proliferation
of spam accounts, but due to market pressures, most do
not scrutinize each account to ensure that it is not
going to be used to spam. The further a company is from
dealing with the individual end-users, the harder it
becomes to scrutinize new accounts. It is not realistic
to expect this of every ISP, and even when such
monitoring is done, it cannot completely prevent this
type of spam from being sent. Careful monitoring merely
stops spammers from being able to spam with free
accounts. Some would argue that once spammers are hit in
the wallet, they will mend their ways and move on to
something else. That is not likely to occur.
This
is the issue facing Tajatech today. There are too many
spammers using too many "throw-away" accounts to
continue to attempt to combat the problem. Therefore, we
have implemented a proactive solution that helps to
resolve this problem.
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The Problem Defined |
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Mail uses TCP port 25 for sending and
receiving mail between servers. Spam software either
connects directly to TCP port 25 on the mail servers
being targeted, or routes its mail though Open-Relay
servers (mass email marketers call these "email friendly
off-shore servers"). Because it connects either directly
or indirectly in this fashion it is extremely difficult
for the target server to block the incoming
spam.
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The Solution |
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Blocking port 25 is extremely easy to do, but one
problem with blocking port 25 is that once done,
legitimate users can no longer send email because they
cannot connect back to their ISP's mail server.
Maintaining a single filter to allow access back to each
Wholesale customer's mail servers is not a scalable
solution. Assuming that each ISP has a minimum of two
mail servers, and factoring in the fact that there are
already thousands of ISPs, there could be several
thousand lines in the access list. Add in the fact that
some ISP's have more than two mail servers, and that
some Wholesale customers are in turn reselling the
Wholesale service to yet more ISPs, and you suddenly
have an extremely long and complex filter, a filter that
has to be updated every time an ISP is added to the
various Wholesale services, leaves the services, or has
to change its server's IPs. This is not a viable option.
Our solution is to apply global filters to our mail
servers. Global filters are able to read the headers of
incoming mail, and decide whether or not that mail
contains enough criteria to warrant rejecting the
message or not. Filters can be based on the name or ip
address of the server connecting, the email address of
the sender, the email address of the receiver, what is
contained the subject line, or any combination of the
above.
Filtering has been extremely successful in
blocking quite a bit of spam, but it is not enough. Spam
continues to come from "Open-Relay" servers, and once
identified, are blocked at our router and can no longer
enter our network. The vast majority of these servers do
not have a reverse DNS entry and are easily
identifiable.
Tajatech wants to work with all of
our customers to make this process as transparent to the
end-users as can be. We welcome any feedback that you
may have regarding this solution. Please contact a Customer
Service Representative with any questions or
comments you may
have.
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