Re: dealing with bogon spam ?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>]

Seen it before - but mostly for malware rather than for spam.  And
certainly not long enough / persistent enough for a full fledged spam
campaign (4..5 days rather than a day or two at the most when people
start noticing and dropping the bogus announcement)

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org> wrote:
> Unallocated doesn't mean non-routed.  All a spammer needs is a
> willing/non-filtering provider doing BGP with them, and they can announce
> any space they like, send out some spam, and then pull the announcement.
> Next morning, when you see the spam and try to figure out who to send
> complaints to, you're either going to complain to the wrong people or find
> that whois is of no help.