Request to lease IP space, or things that make you want to go hmmmmm..

Fri Mar 9 05:07:54 UTC 2012

It's not as if those activities are mutually exclusive.

Owen

On Mar 8, 2012, at 8:14 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> The GRE tunnels part of it, together with email marketing, makes this
> likely to be a snowshoe spam operation.
> 
> Sure it could be pagerank gaming, blog spamming etc.   But on the balance
> it smells like snowshoe to me.
> 
> --srs
> 
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:36 AM, George Michaelson <ggm at apnic.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> The value proposition is not spam: that works with unallocated space.
>> 
>> The value proposition is gaming google page rank, by using widely spread
>> and legitimately routed IPs to force your paying customers page rank high,
>> by hits and references. This is a very high value business: one customer
>> paying you big bucks, to have their web high in google pagerank. Not
>> attacking a million mailboxes.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)