(I previously subscribed to this list using the same mail alias as used for my RIPE Atlas account, and the mail below was held up for moderation since it came from  a non-matching email address.  I now changed my subscription and am re-sending that email.  I apologize in advance if the moderator releases the original mail and you see a duplicate.  — Michael)

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From: Michael Rabinovich <michael.rabinovich@case.edu>
Subject: credit request
Date: March 21, 2019 at 2:45:45 PM EDT
To: ripe-atlas@ripe.net

Folks,

I teach computer science at Case Western Reserve University.  I have a group of students working on a research project to characterize certain aspects of DNS and HTTP interactions on the Web.  To get a representative measurement, we need to resolve hostnames from top-1M websites from a large number of widely dispersed probes.  So we need a large amount of credits and I was wondering if I could ask folks for help.  My back of the envelop calculations suggest we are short of ~200M credits.   I realize it’s a large amount, but we would take any help we can get and will conduct as credible measurement as we can with the credits we assemble!  Please note that my RIPE Atlas account is associated with mail alias misha@case.edu (not the default email address I am sending from), so please use “misha@case.edu” for credit transfer if you can help.

Many thanks in advance!
Regards,
Michael Rabinovich