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Re: Request to lease IP space,

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Thu Mar 8 22:57:53 2012

Date: 9 Mar 2012 03:56:31 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <14B85F94-1574-481A-BED6-4407DDABE51F@apnic.net>
Cc: ggm@apnic.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

>do, but I don't think the primary driver is spam, because spam generates a lower
>income stream, and has higher risks of being RBL or otherwise blocked, and can be
>achieved quickly by use of unrouted space.

I think you overestimate how technically sophisticated snowshoers are.
I just don't see a lot of spam from hit and run route announcements.

R's,
John


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