It's not as if those activities are mutually exclusive. Owen
On Mar 8, 2012, at 8:14 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > The GRE tunnels part of it, together with email marketing, makes this > likely to be a snowshoe spam operation. > > Sure it could be pagerank gaming, blog spamming etc. But on the balance > it smells like snowshoe to me. > > --srs > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:36 AM, George Michaelson <g...@apnic.net> wrote: > >> >> >> The value proposition is not spam: that works with unallocated space. >> >> The value proposition is gaming google page rank, by using widely spread >> and legitimately routed IPs to force your paying customers page rank high, >> by hits and references. This is a very high value business: one customer >> paying you big bucks, to have their web high in google pagerank. Not >> attacking a million mailboxes. > > > > > -- > Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)