[105861] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sure, I'm game (was Re: a business opportunity?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sun Jul 6 10:43:56 2008
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:43:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a0807060649n60fe7a83w3f8dc744ee10eb2c@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Lynda <shrdlu@deaddrop.org> wrote:
>> Actually, that's not a bad idea. Of course, there's the larger problem;
>> verifying that the address space previously sullied is now worthy of being
>> cleaned up. In Nick Shank's case (and Bravo! to Nick), I would say that he's
>> off doing the right thing. It would seem that some serious investigation
>> would be necessary before acting as a third party for others in a similar
>> boat, of course.
>
> There's already a bunch of companies that have built up a business
> model on this.. they call it "deliverability"
There's a big difference though between trying to clean up the reputation
of newly acquired IP space a previous "owner" abused and trying to explain
away an ESP's prior spamming. My limited experience with deliverability
consulting companies recently has largely been the latter.
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