Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?

["Delong.com via NANOG" <nanog () nanog org>]

My best guess is “Life As We Know It Will Be Over”, but that’s just a guess.

Owen


> On Oct 2, 2023, at 17:32, Collider <large.hadron.collider () gmx com> wrote:
>
> So is LAWKIWBO, which is the correct acronym mentioned downthread.
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> Le 3 octobre 2023 00:29:08 UTC, Collider <large.hadron.collider () gmx com> a écrit :
> > Congrats! LIOAWKI is a hapax legomenon in DuckDuckGo's search results! Could you please tell me & the list what it 
> > means?
> >
> >
> > Le 2 octobre 2023 15:28:03 UTC, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> a écrit :
> > > 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
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