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Re: Purchased IPv4 Woes


From: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:00:02 +0100



Den 12/03/2017 kl. 18.49 skrev Rob McEwen:
This motivation goes a LONG way towards countering the profit motives that hosters/ISPs/Datacenters/ESPs have in selling services to spammers - there is MUCH money to be made doing so. But the longer term repercussions of damaged IP reputation makes that a *bad* long-term investment (even if the short-term gains are lucrative).

Sorry but this is not true. The address space does not lose that much in value and in fact most address space that has been used for end users is already tainted in the same way (due to botnets etc).


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