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Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?


From: Collider <large.hadron.collider () gmx com>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:29:08 +0000

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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