That is just The Cogent Way™, unfortunately. I just had (yet another) Cogent rep spam me using an email address that is _only_ used as an ARIN contact, trying to sell me bandwidth. When I called him out on it, with complia...@arin.net CCed, he backpedaled and claimed to obtain my information from Google.
Gotta love these awful bottom feeding companies. On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, at 10:05 AM, Dmitry Sherman wrote: > Cogent are spamming seriously, they call me from different phone number in > Frankfurt and USA in holidays or at night. > > -- > Dmitry Sherman > Interhost Networks Ltd > dmi...@interhost.net > Mobile: +972-54-3181182 > Office: +972-74-7029881 > Web: www.interhost.co.il > > On 17/09/2019, 3:25, "NANOG on behalf of Michel Py" <nanog-boun...@nanog.org > on behalf of michel...@tsisemi.com> wrote: > > > If you don’t like Cogent - explain. > > Besides the peering issues, they can't stop spamming. If after 20 attempts > on the phone you have not picked up, they start to send email. > They abuse whois. They are one of the primary reasons few people put their > real phone number in whois. > > And I have never talked to that level of incompetence. Tell their sales > droids that you want a link over RFC 1149, or that you need BGT (instead of > BGP), they will tell you no problem. > Don't even try to ask anything about communities or RPKI; they can't tell > the difference between a router and a connected coffee pot. If you must deal > with them, record everything. > > If someone has a cheap Asterisk trick so when the caller ID says COGENT it > goes directly to Lenny I'll take it. > > Michel > > TSI Disclaimer: This message and any files or text attached to it are > intended only for the recipients named above and contain information that may > be confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you > must not forward, copy, use or otherwise disclose this communication or the > information contained herein. In the event you have received this message in > error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message, and > then delete all copies of it from your system. Thank you!... > > >
