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Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Haagsman)
Wed Jun 14 09:25:15 2006

From: Erik Haagsman <erik@we-dare.net>
To: "Edward B. DREGER" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0606140528060.3529@pop.ict1.everquick.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:23:09 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 05:28 +0000, Edward B. DREGER wrote:
> CLM> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 04:46:31 +0000 (GMT)
> CLM> From: Christopher L. Morrow
> 
> CLM> is it really that hard to make your foudry/extreme/cisco l3 switch vlan
> CLM> and subnet???
> 
> Of course not.
> 
> 
> CLM> Is this a education thing or a laziness thing?
> 
> Both.

And in some cases even a nasty fincancial thing. Billing customers extra
datatraffic due to a large amount of broadcast traffic (especially when
running badly configured Win32 servers) inside a single /23 or even /22
in one large VLAN is sadly still the case for some hosters. 


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