[150961] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Request to lease IP space, or things that make you want to go
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Clearwater)
Thu Mar 8 21:17:13 2012
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:16:09 -0700
From: Fred Clearwater <fred.clearwater@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120308165600.A88561A2@m0005297.ppops.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 03/08/2012 05:56 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
>
> --- ml-nanog090304q@elcsplace.com wrote:
> From: Ted Cooper<ml-nanog090304q@elcsplace.com>
>
> 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".
> "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.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> What Ted said. This is a dead giveaway:
>
> "on-demand solutions for brand marketers and website promotion chiefly
> through email marketing".
>
> There is no info regarding that company on search engines, either.
> That raises it to another level of suspicion. Don't help them. It
> sure would be nice to get names and look up who they really are,
> though...>;-)
>
> And, no I have not gotten one.
>
> scott
>
>
Seems this is not the first request for this "company" for space.
http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2012-January/023891.html
Fred
