[109241] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Newman)
Wed Nov 12 16:52:37 2008
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:52:12 -0500
In-Reply-To: <491B42C4.7080805@wvi.com>
From: "Nick Newman" <NNewman@nw3c.org>
To: "Jeff Shultz" <jeffshultz@wvi.com>,
"NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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