Request to lease IP space, or things that make you want to go hmmmmm..

[johnl at iecc.com (John Levine)]

>The value proposition is not spam: that works with unallocated space.

You may well be right that their plan is to fake out page rank, but
spammers also like address space that's been allocated for a long
time.  Spreading spam around to try to sneak under the radar is so
common that it has a name, snowshoe spamming.

R's,
John