Re: vendor spam OTD

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>]

Given we’re going down this “what is spam” rathole again, spam is generally defined as unsolicited BULK email

As the email appears to be one to one, though a remarkably persistent one to one, I would suggest procmail, unless you 
know he’s harvested nanog and is sending the same offer mail merged to a bunch of operators.

—srs

> On 28-Apr-2015, at 8:29 am, Rob Seastrom <rs () seastrom com> wrote:
>
> > On 04/27/2015 07:02 PM, Rob Seastrom wrote:
> > > Anyone else been spammed by Andy Boland at "Function5 Technology
> > > Group"?
> >
> > I'm not sure it's fair to class the e-mail as "spam", but he is one
> > persistent fellow.  My company made list for some of the equipment we
> > retired for purchase, and his Cisco buyer never got back to me.  So
> > the excess inventory is being offered to another reseller.
>
> Well, it's unsolicited email from a company who I've never had any
> commercial relationship with.  If it's not fair to class it as spam,
> what is it fair to class it as?
>
> I reported it to the appropriate abuse folks.