23 Jul
2004
23 Jul
'04
12:26 p.m.
I don't want to digress into a spam-l or asrg standard thread, but I do want to point out the similarity of what I think are ad networks that manage sets of write-engines (aka "zombies") in the blog-spam (http) problem space with the canonical abuse-desk/xdsl swamp meta-thread on nanog. I'm observing rotation of write-side assets (dsl zomb-o-the-moment), and rotation of ad inventory (variation on viagra/paxil/casino/xxx domains. This is in response to the comment that begins
Let's just be clear that not all sites mentioned in spam are profiting ...
Which was in reply to a comment that concluded
Spam doesn't occur in a vacuum. The other half is the "site(s)" profiting ...
Eric