Has anyone replied? If this is a peering request, not sure that is a bad use of the AS contact info.
If it is a sales pitch, then yeah, that’s a problem. -- TTFN, patrick > On Oct 2, 2023, at 14:58, Tim Burke <t...@mid.net> wrote: > > Hurricane has been doing the same thing lately... but their schtick is to say > that "we are seeing a significant amount of hops in your AS path and wanted > to know if you are open to resolve this issue". > > complia...@arin.net is about all that can be done, other than public shaming! > > Other outfits have been spamming using the nanog attendees list, but I guess > that’s not as bad as the continued scraping of ARIN records, so I won't call > them out... yet, at least. 😊 > > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+tim=mid....@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Mel Beckman > Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 10:28 AM > To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org> > Subject: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? > > 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
