[arin-ppml] ARIN IPs and Spammers?

[Ron Grant]

"First they came for the spammers, and I said nothing, because I sent no 
spam"

On 2014-11-06 3:59 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> In a word, no.
>
> ARIN should not be the application police and should not be making value judgments about what addresses are used for.
>
> While I support industry efforts to eliminate SPAM and support ARIN taking action against inefficient utilization of address space (such as snowshoe spamming), I do not think that we want to go down the very slippery slope of appointing ARIN arbiter of what is good and bad usage of internet addresses.
>
> Owen
>
>> On Nov 6, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Bon Onlines <bononlines at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> What do you think about the number of ARIN ips belongs to spammers
>> nowadays? I have done a researched recently and found alot companies
>> how have assigned more than thousands of IPs to some spammers around
>> the world.
>>
>> Do you think such assignments are fair? Shouldn't arin take some steps
>> to stop such abuses of ips?
>>
>> I would be happy to hear your thoughts.
>>
>> Thanks
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