Dean Anderson wrote:

Suresh: Did you know that Vixie, Levine, and Joffe were owners and directors of Whitehat, a spam company that 'listwashes' spam-trap addresses? If so, then you seem to have some discredit coming, too.

Did you mistake nanog for an anti-spam mailing list? If Vixie was the largest spammer on the planet, it wouldn't really effect network operations, unless his spam clogged up our bgp sessions or he started stealing IP blocks or something similarly boring. ;) Jack