I've been getting mail from "premiumcolo.net" offering to rent unused IPv4/IPv6 space. Their web site is a farce of random phrases, grammatical errors, misspellings, and randomly inserted words, and won't even render in Firefox.

You need a larger warning may be dodgy sign?

Also, is there some reason that there is no official searchable archive of the nanog mailing list? (or dependable unofficial one...)?

In each message header List-Archive: <http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/> google site:mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/ your search terms brandon