Based on my personal experience of getting onto the contact list of an extremely persistent Cogent sales person, mostly, I am morbidly curious what their CRM system looks like for cold and stale leads, and how often these sets of non-responsive leads get passed on to new junior salespeople. And exactly how many of those sales people there are and what policies/management structure they work under.
It took a fair amount of effort and many strongly worded responses on my part to eventually get my personal cellular phone number removed from their CRM system (or at least marked as a do-not-contact). On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 6:52 PM Mel Beckman <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
