[SpamCop-List] Re: empty spam...

[Norman Miller]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:20:56 -0800, jg wrote:

> Been getting a lot of these lately.
> While looking for something more definitive as to origin (curiousity) I
> did a trace on 24.22.212.4
> and came up with (via Sam Spade)...

An unremarkable trace route. Comcast has a contract, or peering agreement
with AT&T, whoops, that is now "at&t"; seriously. Since SBC has completed
its purchase of AT&T, and changed the company name to, "at&t", and the
"Deathstar" logo for good measure, there may be some changes in the
routing. I expect that at&t may decide to adjust the routing computations
to spread the load among all of the at&t backbone routers, including the
former SBC backbone routers. Or not. In any case, the old AT&T backbone is
known to Comcast customers for being a routing choke point, prone to high
latency.

Right, none of that, nor the lack of responsiveness of the customer host ti
ICMP packets, has a lot of bearing on the spam source.

-- 
Norman
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