[150958] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Request to lease IP space,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Thu Mar 8 20:21:58 2012
Date: 9 Mar 2012 01:20:41 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4C14311B-271E-4E3F-B8A3-88646046FAA2@apnic.net>
Cc: ggm@apnic.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>The value proposition is not spam: that works with unallocated space.
You may well be right that their plan is to fake out page rank, but
spammers also like address space that's been allocated for a long
time. Spreading spam around to try to sneak under the radar is so
common that it has a name, snowshoe spamming.
R's,
John
