Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

Thu Jun 15 17:53:06 UTC 2006

At 7:03 PM -0400 6/14/06, Matt Buford wrote:
>There is also strong demand among web hosting customers to scatter 
>sites across multiple /24's due to search engine optimization.

I hear this line of thinking often, but to me it sounds like 
bulls^X^X^X^X^X... um, "folklore". When our customers/salesdroids ask 
for it, I (politely) refuse. We acquired a hosting operation in 2004 
that had blown a full /20 on literally a rack and a half of hardware, 
and I was aghast at what a nightmare that was. We're still untangling 
that mess.

Anyway, if somebody could enlighten me to definitive proof, or stated 
policy by Goo... er "search engines", that confirms this "search 
engine result optimization by blatant abuse of IP addresses" I'd 
appreciate it. I for one believe it is bunk dreamt up by somebody 
trying to sell something. If it is true though, I would have to say 
that it "is evil" and I would imagine many folks here (and not to 
mention ARIN, RIPE, et al) would agree.

--chuck