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Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees
From: Rod Beck <rod.beck () unitedcablecompany com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:46:43 +0000
Exactly. But some people enjoy complaining. - R. ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces () nanog org> on behalf of Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 3:41:13 PM Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees I'm still not sure people understand the situation. There's an attendee list, but that list doesn't have e-mail addresses. It didn't come from the mailing list. The person looked up who went to the conference and then found their e-mail address elsewhere. I also don't think the above is wrong in any way and people should just get on with their lives. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: tim () pelican org To: "NANOG" <nanog () nanog org> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 8:37:09 AM Subject: Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees On Tuesday, 20 June, 2017 14:26, "Rod Beck" <rod.beck () unitedcablecompany com> said:
And how do you tell if an address was scraped or not? There are databases and zillions of other ways of gaining addresses. I doubt you can distinguish the source with any real reliability.
Depending on whether you're registered with personal or corporate email, and how much control you have over the platform in question, you can distinguish the source with fairly high reliability. Just generate a new 'bob+nanog70 () bobsdomain org' style address for every event you register for, every website that requires a contact address, every mailing list, ... If you're concerned that people will twig, and use the naked 'bob@' address, you could work with multiple names including a hash that look like internal nonsense, e.g. 'bob34adf@', or block the un-plussed 'bob@' entirely and use e.g. 'robert@' for people you trust to have your real, non-circumstance-specific email address. I know people who do this, it really depends how much you care about being able to trace and block people who are either scraping or re-selling your details. Regards, Tim.
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- Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees, (continued)
- Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees Ge Dupin (Jun 21)
- Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees Tom Beecher (Jun 21)
- Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees Dave Temkin (Jun 14)
- Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees Jon Lewis (Jun 14)
- Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees Dave Temkin (Jun 14)
- Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees Rod Beck (Jun 20)
- Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees Dan Hollis (Jun 20)
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- Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees tim () pelican org (Jun 20)
- Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees Mike Hammett (Jun 20)
- Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees tim () pelican org (Jun 20)
- Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees Rod Beck (Jun 20)
- Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees Mark Andrews (Jun 20)
- Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees Ge Dupin (Jun 19)