Re: New Class C's just lit on on AT&T, spamming

[Jay Hennigan <jay () west net>]

Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Michael Peddemors wrote:
>
> > A new block under AT&T, listed as being owned by:
> >
> > The Karcher Group Inc. ATTIS-9951800 (NET-99-51-80-0-1) 99.51.80.0 -
> > 99.51.81.255
> >
> > Just started an email marketing campaign to addresses stripped from 
> > the web..

There's a far more succinct term for "email marketing campaign"...

> > We wouldn't run out of IP's if this didn't keep happening..
>
> I don't see how this relates to IPv4-runout.  The allocation (to AT&T) 
> isn't all that new...and when they cancel this spammer, the space will 
> undoubtedly be assigned to another customer.

And that other customer will find that it's poisoned space and will need 
to look for another subnet.

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