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Re: Request to lease IP space,

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Fri Mar 9 00:23:09 2012

In-Reply-To: <4899F603-44F0-48FC-B233-F8A6C4631946@delong.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:52:13 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

No.  And often you find "dirty" blocks reused by a few ISPs for other, non
email purposes - like once they finally boot a snowshoer off, they take on
a blog spammer or something of the sort.

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:

> 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.
>



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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)

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