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?"