[194046] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Purchased IPv4 Woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Baldur Norddahl)
Sun Mar 12 14:00:05 2017
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To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:00:02 +0100
In-Reply-To: <b246458a-f73f-8ca8-b40d-1ed78d51b874@invaluement.com>
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Den 12/03/2017 kl. 18.49 skrev Rob McEwen:
> This motivation goes a LONG way towards countering the profit motives
> that hosters/ISPs/Datacenters/ESPs have in selling services to
> spammers - there is MUCH money to be made doing so. But the longer
> term repercussions of damaged IP reputation makes that a *bad*
> long-term investment (even if the short-term gains are lucrative).
Sorry but this is not true. The address space does not lose that much in
value and in fact most address space that has been used for end users is
already tainted in the same way (due to botnets etc).
