[72706] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland )
Fri Jul 23 12:26:42 2004
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: "Christian Kuhtz" <christian.kuhtz@BELLSOUTH.COM>,
nanog@nanog.org, brunner@nic-naa.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:43:39 -0400."
<6.1.2.0.2.20040723103730.05fea570@mail.amaranth.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:26:50 +0000
From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I don't want to digress into a spam-l or asrg standard thread, but I do want
to point out the similarity of what I think are ad networks that manage
sets of write-engines (aka "zombies") in the blog-spam (http) problem space
with the canonical abuse-desk/xdsl swamp meta-thread on nanog.
I'm observing rotation of write-side assets (dsl zomb-o-the-moment), and
rotation of ad inventory (variation on viagra/paxil/casino/xxx domains.
This is in response to the comment that begins
> Let's just be clear that not all sites mentioned in spam are profiting
> ...
Which was in reply to a comment that concluded
> Spam doesn't occur in a vacuum. The other half is the "site(s)" profiting
> ...
Eric
