[58263] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reply to Sean Donelan (was: Yet more hijacked space? - deru.net)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@pilosoft.com)
Tue May 6 10:20:59 2003
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 10:08:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@pilosoft.com
To: jlewis@lewis.org
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305060728150.19805-100000@redhat1.mmaero.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> This has got to be one of the worst ideas you've come up with recently.
> The crack pipe must be pretty warm. This would make every provider like
> Level3 and Cogent...hosters of spammers camouflaged by a lack of
> publicly available reassignment data. At least with the current system,
> most providers publish reassignment data, so when you get spammed by
> discountdeals or ultimate savings, or the like, you can usually look up
> their address space and block them. Too many providers just don't care
> about spam as long as the spammers pay.
BS. Cogent provides publically available reassignment info in its rwhois
database.
Comment: ********************************************
Comment: Reassignment information for this block is
Comment: available at rwhois.cogentco.com port 4321
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