Phishing and BGP Blackholing

Thu Jan 4 09:52:29 UTC 2007

For those of us who read nanog from a mobile device, it's incredibly
annoying to have no content in the first few bytes - a lot of mobile
e-mail clients (all MS Windows Mobile 5 devices and every Blackberry
I've seen) pull the first 0.5KB of each message, i.e. the header,
subject line and the first few lines of text, so the user can decide
which ones are worth reading in full.

Intention is to save bandwidth on low-speed, noncertain networks
(GPRS, 1xRTT) which also tend to be metered per-bit - spending actual
money to read something like the following is always a great way to
start the day.

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>>Steve wrote:
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Another User temporarily inconvenienced several million electrons to
lucubrate anent following philosophy, and how clever silly synonyms
for "said" are:
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>Someone's PGP Key
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>Someone's Smartass Sig