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Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 17:45:30 -0400
Has anyone replied? If this is a peering request, not sure that is a bad use of the AS contact info. If it is a sales pitch, then yeah, that’s a problem. -- TTFN, patrick
On Oct 2, 2023, at 14:58, Tim Burke <tim () mid net> wrote: Hurricane has been doing the same thing lately... but their schtick is to say that "we are seeing a significant amount of hops in your AS path and wanted to know if you are open to resolve this issue". compliance () arin net is about all that can be done, other than public shaming! Other outfits have been spamming using the nanog attendees list, but I guess that’s not as bad as the continued scraping of ARIN records, so I won't call them out... yet, at least. 😊 -----Original Message----- From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+tim=mid.net () nanog org> On Behalf Of Mel Beckman Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 10:28 AM To: nanog list <nanog () nanog org> Subject: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? This morning I received an email from someone at Cogent asking about an ASN I administer. They didn’t give any details, but I assumed it might be related to some kind of network transport issue. I replied cordially, asking them what they needed. The person then replied with a blatant spam, advertising Cogent IP services, in violation of the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act’s prohibition against deceptive UCE. I believe they got the contact information from ARIN, because the ARIN technical POC is the only place where my name and the ASN are connected. I believe this is a violation of Cogent’s contract with ARIN. Does anybody know how I can effectively report this to ARIN? If we can’t even police infrastructure providers for spamming, LIOAWKI. -mel beckman
Current thread:
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?, (continued)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Tom Beecher (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Jay Hennigan (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- RE: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Tim Burke (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mark Tinka (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Matthew Petach (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mark Tinka (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mark Tinka (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Tim Burke (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Collider (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Delong.com via NANOG (Oct 04)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Matthew Petach (Oct 04)
- Re: ARIN email address (was cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?) Christopher Morrow (Oct 03)
- Re: ARIN email address (was cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?) niels=nanog (Oct 03)
- Re: ARIN email address (was cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?) Christopher Morrow (Oct 03)