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From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net> To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:52:08 +0000 In-Reply-To: <9A93BDB8-6513-49A2-9ADF-35959E1836B3@arbor.net> Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org On Sep 4, 2010, at 3:11 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > I've certainly never run across it, nor do I know anyone else who has don= e so. =20 I stand corrected - it seems I do in fact know someone who's observed this = technique used to send spam, albeit in the past when POTS dial-up pools wer= e the de facto access method for the masses and before the technical and co= mmercial maturity of the botnet business model. I still maintain that even if it's being used today, it's rare, and essenti= ally a corner-case. This isn't meant to detract from the novelty and creat= ivity of the paper in question, but rather to posit the view that it isn't = necessarily something for operators to get too worked up about, in the sche= me of things. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Sell your computer and buy a guitar.
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