[150967] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Request to lease IP space,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Mar 8 23:15:26 2012
In-Reply-To: <4C14311B-271E-4E3F-B8A3-88646046FAA2@apnic.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:44:30 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The GRE tunnels part of it, together with email marketing, makes this
likely to be a snowshoe spam operation.
Sure it could be pagerank gaming, blog spamming etc. But on the balance
it smells like snowshoe to me.
--srs
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:36 AM, George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net> wrote:
>
>
> The value proposition is not spam: that works with unallocated space.
>
> The value proposition is gaming google page rank, by using widely spread
> and legitimately routed IPs to force your paying customers page rank high,
> by hits and references. This is a very high value business: one customer
> paying you big bucks, to have their web high in google pagerank. Not
> attacking a million mailboxes.
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
