John, Thank you for your guidance!
-mel > On Oct 2, 2023, at 8:33 AM, John Sweeting <jsweet...@arin.net> wrote: > > Mel, I will reply to you off list. Thanks. > > On 10/2/23, 11:28 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Mel Beckman" > <nanog-bounces+jsweeting=arin....@nanog.org <mailto:arin....@nanog.org> on > behalf of m...@beckman.org <mailto:m...@beckman.org>> wrote: > > > 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 >
