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April 04, 2005
MTS Spammers -- goodbye!
In a previous post I detailed a little trouble I was having from spammers using the Manitoba Telephone Systems Internet Service. Since they have thousands of subscribers, I didn't want to completely ban potential clients from, at least, my contact information.
I have found over the years that most work comes in through referrals. I have a number of clients who have never seen my website. They get my number passed on to them from someone else and give me a call. When you sell a big ticket item, people (in most cases) are going to phone you before hiring you.
I found a webpage listing some free website hosts and signed up for an account. Then I added these lines to my .htaccess file at homebusiness-websites.com:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^142\.161
RewriteRule .* http://dogbyte.do.funpic.org
The above lines takes into account MTS complete IP range.
What happens is that when someone tries to connect to homebusiness-websites.com from mts.ca they get redirected to here.
Who knows? Maybe if enough MTS users complain, maybe it will prompt them to re-consider their position. I would have to say the chance are very slim. You just never know...
Posted by Steve MacLellan at April 4, 2005 10:53 AM
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