On 09/03/12 09:40, Matthew Huff wrote: > Just got an email today to our account associated with our legacy > ARIN address space. A firm "Precision Management of Texas" is > interested in subleasing some of our IP space for "on-demand > solutions for brand marketers and website promotion chiefly through > email marketing". > > The one thing clear within the large amount of marketing-speach is > they want "As is the nature of this business PM seeks to obtain as > much diversity in the allocated IP space as possible, however the > most important thing is the Subnets need to have no abuse history." > > Anyone else get solicited? > > They seem to be flexible "We can take the IPs via GRE or BGP or other > such tunneling solution to where you have them announced. > Alternatively we can advertise them ourselves on our network, saving > you the back-haul. As a third solution we can take a server on your > network with the following specs:..."
Translation of their request: "We'd like to use your IP address reputation to bypass spam filters by spreading our footprint out as much as possible and spam a few million people into the ground because we've ruined the reputation of every other IP address we've ever used. May we destroy your reputation?"
