[94597] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who was the last legit spammer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sun Jan 28 09:32:09 2007
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:30:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: "Travis H." <travis+ml-nanog@subspacefield.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20070128135212.GA23908@subspacefield.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Travis H. wrote:
> Hey, was discussing something from the long distant past recently.
> Specifically it was my memory of the last legitimate spamhaus,
> and how (IIRC) their backbone was DDoS'd as an act of pseudo-vigilante
> justice. I also seem to remember their backbone as spinning it
> as a content-neutral free-speech kind of thing, but they buckled
> and the Internet was probably better off.
"Legit spammer"? Perhaps you're thinking of Sanford Wallace's cyberpromo
and AGIS?
http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/historical/9710/msg00018.html
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