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Has spam factory dakotacom.net moved from ACSI to Alternet ?

  • From: John R Levine
  • Date: Mon Nov 17 16:39:43 1997

I've been receiving buckets of spam from dakotacom.net, as many as 90 per 
day.  They've been connected to ACSI for many months.

ACSI has a new anti-spam AUP that went into effect today.  Today I see that
traceroutes to Dakotacom go through Alternet and
medic-net-gw.customer.ALTER.NET.  But the route looks odd, maybe a leak
rather than a new real route. 

I don't speak BGP (my multi-homed ISP does that for me), so can anyone see
who's announcing 207.201.204.0/255.255.252.0 ?  ACSI?  Alternet?  Both? 

Regards,
John Levine, postmaster@abuse.net, http://www.abuse.net, Trumansburg NY
abuse.net postmaster