A Case of Network Identity Theft?

"Digital real estate leased to one of the Internet's oldest
landholders appears to have been quietly seized by e-mail marketers
closely associated with an individual once tagged by anti-spam groups
as one of the world's most notorious spammers.

What's remarkable about this case study is that it pits a vocal
spammer against the American Registry for Internet Numbers, which has
yet to take action. ARIN is one of five regional Internet registries
worldwide that is responsible for allocating IP addresses (ARIN
handles this process for the United States, Canada and 22 Caribbean
countries).

The real estate in question is Internet address space long ago issued
to San Francisco Bay Packet Radio, an organization that was involved
way back in the 1970s in testing ARPANET, a predecessor to the global
commercial Internet that we all use today. That organization was given
the rights to do whatever it wanted with any numeric Internet
addresses that begin with 134.17 (an allocation that is known in the
industry as a "slash 16" or "/16," or enough Web space to accommodate
up to 65,536 unique Internet addresses). "

snip The last paragraph:

"I could not find current contact information for anyone who worked on
the original San Francisco Bay Packet Radio project. If you or someone
you know was affiliated with that effort, please drop me a line or
leave a comment below."

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