[150953] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Request to lease IP space, or things that make you want to go
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ted Cooper)
Thu Mar 8 19:26:06 2012
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:25:09 +1000
From: Ted Cooper <ml-nanog090304q@elcsplace.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <483E6B0272B0284BA86D7596C40D29F901928959AAB2@PUR-EXCH07.ox.com>
Reply-To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 09/03/12 09:40, Matthew Huff wrote:
> Just got an email today to our account associated with our legacy
> ARIN address space. A firm "Precision Management of Texas" is
> interested in subleasing some of our IP space for "on-demand
> solutions for brand marketers and website promotion chiefly through
> email marketing".
>
> The one thing clear within the large amount of marketing-speach is
> they want "As is the nature of this business PM seeks to obtain as
> much diversity in the allocated IP space as possible, however the
> most important thing is the Subnets need to have no abuse history."
>
> Anyone else get solicited?
>
> They seem to be flexible "We can take the IPs via GRE or BGP or other
> such tunneling solution to where you have them announced.
> Alternatively we can advertise them ourselves on our network, saving
> you the back-haul. As a third solution we can take a server on your
> network with the following specs:..."
Translation of their request:
"We'd like to use your IP address reputation to bypass spam filters by
spreading our footprint out as much as possible and spam a few million
people into the ground because we've ruined the reputation of every
other IP address we've ever used.
May we destroy your reputation?"
