On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Lynda <shrdlu@deaddrop.org> wrote:
Actually, that's not a bad idea. Of course, there's the larger problem; verifying that the address space previously sullied is now worthy of being cleaned up. In Nick Shank's case (and Bravo! to Nick), I would say that he's off doing the right thing. It would seem that some serious investigation would be necessary before acting as a third party for others in a similar boat, of course.
There's already a bunch of companies that have built up a business model on this.. they call it "deliverability"
There's a big difference though between trying to clean up the reputation of newly acquired IP space a previous "owner" abused and trying to explain away an ESP's prior spamming. My limited experience with deliverability consulting companies recently has largely been the latter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________