[anti-abuse-wg] Spam under protection. Believe it or not!

andre at ox.co.za wrote:

>On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 04:52:25 -0700
>"Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>> Criminals everywhere are very greatful to ICANN.
>> 
>and to so many ISP's that ignore abuse or that hide behind
>an image of decency...

I know.  Believe me, I know.

You don't want to look too closely at the _other_ corporations
formed by the owner of one particular large Nevada-based ISP...
to whom ARIN, in its infinite wisdom, has given great gobs of
IPv4 space.  If you did, you might find out that he is also the
owner of an e-mail marketing company... a company that just happens
to use so-called "snowshoe" techniques, to spread out its spam
across thousands or tens of thousands of different IPv4 addresses
(and also thousands or tens of thousands of domain names as well).

And where, you might well ask, did the e-mail marketing company
manage to aquire all of those snowshoe IPv4 addresses?  Why, from
the "legitimate" ISP company (owned by the same guy), of course.

Did I mention the fact that the guy who owns both companies also
happens to be a member in good standing of ARIN... even sitting
on one of their boards?

>Spam is not a domain thing, it is an IP thing.

Yes and no.  It's both really.


Regards,
rfg