[150970] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Request to lease IP space,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Mar 9 00:14:22 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAArzuovfuPucqQ-xBhS+9eWEm1RzPuCNrXRAO7JPGVH4vPmmUg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 21:07:54 -0800
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
It's not as if those activities are mutually exclusive.
Owen
On Mar 8, 2012, at 8:14 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 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)
