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Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation


From: Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:15:58 -0700

Skywing wrote:
What's to stop spammers from doing this to cycle through blocks in rapid-fashion?

This proposal seems easily abusable to me.


Oh, I don't know, maybe ARIN staff can say no? The process is heavy with
human interaction, there is nothing "rapid" about it, and bears no
comparison to the automated process of registering a domain name. You'd
know that if you ever had to make a request for a number resource from ARIN.

~Seth


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