[118949] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Class C's just lit on on AT&T, spamming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Tue Nov 3 12:55:03 2009
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:54:27 -0800
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0911031146590.22812@soloth.lewis.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, mailop@mailop.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Michael Peddemors wrote:
>
>> A new block under AT&T, listed as being owned by:
>>
>> The Karcher Group Inc. ATTIS-9951800 (NET-99-51-80-0-1) 99.51.80.0 -
>> 99.51.81.255
>>
>> Just started an email marketing campaign to addresses stripped from
>> the web..
There's a far more succinct term for "email marketing campaign"...
>> We wouldn't run out of IP's if this didn't keep happening..
>
> I don't see how this relates to IPv4-runout. The allocation (to AT&T)
> isn't all that new...and when they cancel this spammer, the space will
> undoubtedly be assigned to another customer.
And that other customer will find that it's poisoned space and will need
to look for another subnet.
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