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Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

  • From: Erik Haagsman
  • Date: Wed Jun 14 09:25:54 2006

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 05:28 +0000, Edward B. DREGER wrote:
> CLM> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 04:46:31 +0000 (GMT)
> CLM> From: Christopher L. Morrow
> 
> CLM> is it really that hard to make your foudry/extreme/cisco l3 switch vlan
> CLM> and subnet???
> 
> Of course not.
> 
> 
> CLM> Is this a education thing or a laziness thing?
> 
> Both.

And in some cases even a nasty fincancial thing. Billing customers extra
datatraffic due to a large amount of broadcast traffic (especially when
running badly configured Win32 servers) inside a single /23 or even /22
in one large VLAN is sadly still the case for some hosters. 


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