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Has spam factory dakotacom.net moved from ACSI to Alternet ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R Levine)
Mon Nov 17 16:38:47 1997

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:21:30 -0500 (EST)
From: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu

I've been receiving buckets of spam from dakotacom.net, as many as 90 per 
day.  They've been connected to ACSI for many months.

ACSI has a new anti-spam AUP that went into effect today.  Today I see that
traceroutes to Dakotacom go through Alternet and
medic-net-gw.customer.ALTER.NET.  But the route looks odd, maybe a leak
rather than a new real route. 

I don't speak BGP (my multi-homed ISP does that for me), so can anyone see
who's announcing 207.201.204.0/255.255.252.0 ?  ACSI?  Alternet?  Both? 

Regards,
John Levine, postmaster@abuse.net, http://www.abuse.net, Trumansburg NY
abuse.net postmaster


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