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At 07:16 PM 5/4/2006, william(at)elan.net wrote: On Thu, 4 May 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote:I hate to be the bearer of bad news to spammers :) but based onAt 11:15 AM 5/3/2006, John Levine wrote:>Uh. Who let the Frog out? I hate to be the bearer of bad news to BS' VC's, but BS moving their DNS to UltraDNS and hosting to Prolexic was likely not part of the business plan. "They ain't cheap". The spammers can now theoretically force them to spend all time and all their money responding to attacks. The killer here is that they asked a lot of people a year ago whether this was a good idea and everyone said no. Read John Levine's blog and pointer to a few of his previous articles. He wasn't the only person they asked. There's a WHOLE lot more to this than is public. Spammers: 2 Blue Security: 0 NANOG: -2 (vigilante time sink) -M< -- Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663 Renesys Corporation (w) 617-395-8574 Member of Technical Staff Network Operations [email protected]
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