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 134.17.0.0/16 address block.

That entire swath of Internet space is now registered to an entity in Westminster, Colo., called SF Bay Packet Radio LLC, but except for a similar name, this company has no relation to San Francisco Bay Packet Radio… ? A review of records posted by both Spamhaus.org and e-mail provider Outblaze.com shows that a large number of Internet addresses on the company's Internet space have been blacklisted for sending junk e-mail… Spamhaus spokesperson said that JKS Media/Media Breakaway had indeed hijacked the IP space from its previous owner, and that the IP space should be revoked under the rules set out by ARIN.

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