Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Mel Beckman
But as I said, harvesting emails is not illegal under can spam. And the requirement to not send you UCE to harvested emails is pointless, because how do you prove that someone did that? -mel via cell On Jun 13, 2017, at 8:44 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >> It seems that more than just a few of us we

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Scott Weeks
:: What do you suggest? Shoot them at Dawn? :-) Not all of them. Just shoot the first one and the rest will pay attention! ;-) :: We don't have a runaway spamming problem on the list. A lot of it has to do with naming-n-shaming, which he did. Instead of a firing squad, it's a financial

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Randy Bush
> It seems that more than just a few of us were spammed by Glenn Stern > (gst...@calient.net), an employee of Calient following NANOG 70. > ... > Hopefully those of you who have traditional community attitudes will > show your reaction via your pocketbooks. traditional community attitudes left the

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Mel Beckman writes: > Mark, > > What law makes the harvesting of email addresses illegal? None that I > know of. If you can trust wikipedia sending to harvested addresses is illegal under CAN-SPAM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003 While this is not US law, the a

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Mel Beckman
Mark, What law makes the harvesting of email addresses illegal? None that I know of. -mel via cell > On Jun 13, 2017, at 6:58 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > In message , Mel Beckman > writes: >> Mark, >> >> The problem with your idea is that these NANOG attendee emails aren't >> illegal und

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Mel Beckman writes: > Mark, > > The problem with your idea is that these NANOG attendee emails aren't > illegal under CAN-SPAM. This toothless Act let's anyone email any address > they want, however obtained, with virtually any content (except sexually > explicit), as long as they do

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Mel Beckman
Mark, The problem with your idea is that these NANOG attendee emails aren't illegal under CAN-SPAM. This toothless Act let's anyone email any address they want, however obtained, with virtually any content (except sexually explicit), as long as they don't use misleading headers, deceptive subje

Re: More Critical Microsoft Patches including XP/2003

2017-06-13 Thread J. Hellenthal
Thank you -- Onward!, Jason Hellenthal, Systems & Network Admin, Mobile: 0x9CA0BD58, JJH48-ARIN On Jun 13, 2017, at 14:36, Keith Medcalf wrote: Microsoft has released "critical patches" for "recently disclosed vulnerabilities which may be used for imminent attacks". Main page is he

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <38e506a8-247a-478f-9c4d-21602bee6...@beckman.org>, Mel Beckman writes: > That still leaves the question: how to you invoke this financial > punishment? Prohibit NANOG members from buying their products? Everyone that has received the email bring a action under the CAN-SPAM act. Real

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Mike Hammett
Does it fit into one of the categories I defined? I wasn't overly clear in the second example of the last category. Seeing someone working for someone that's in a specific area and then reaching out to them about something specific to their area... probably not. Further examples of yes\no for

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 13 Jun 2017, Mike Hammett wrote: I think it would too subject to wild variance in what someone views as bad. Actual SPAM (viagra, Nigerian prices, etc.), of course. Industry-related SPAM, probably. Targeted marketing (looking for someone at Facebook, seeing someone from Facebook and trac

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Mike Hammett
I think it would too subject to wild variance in what someone views as bad. Actual SPAM (viagra, Nigerian prices, etc.), of course. Industry-related SPAM, probably. Targeted marketing (looking for someone at Facebook, seeing someone from Facebook and tracking them down... or seeing someone at

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 05:47:23PM +, Mel Beckman wrote: > That still leaves the question: how to you invoke this financial > punishment? Prohibit NANOG members from buying their products? I don't think there's a mechanism to do that. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) However, I think it's f

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread John Osmon
> > From: "Chuck Anderson" > > To: nanog@nanog.org > > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 12:47:17 PM > > Subject: Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees > > > > I've started keeping a list of companies who make unsolicited > > calls/emails. I tell them that I put them on my list of companies > > n

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Niels Bakker
* m...@beckman.org (Mel Beckman) [Tue 13 Jun 2017, 21:26 CEST]: And your proposed solution is? Simple. Stop buying from spammers. -- Niels.

More Critical Microsoft Patches including XP/2003

2017-06-13 Thread Keith Medcalf
Microsoft has released "critical patches" for "recently disclosed vulnerabilities which may be used for imminent attacks". Main page is here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/4025685.aspx and that has links to the appropriate articles and places where you can actually down

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Mel Beckman
Dan, And your proposed solution is? -mel via cell > On Jun 13, 2017, at 11:35 AM, Dan Hollis wrote: > > It's funny to see all this apologia for nanog spammers and attempts to > normalize the practice and brush it off as acceptable or unavoidable, > especially after the "omg evil politicans v

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Dan Hollis
It's funny to see all this apologia for nanog spammers and attempts to normalize the practice and brush it off as acceptable or unavoidable, especially after the "omg evil politicans voted to rollback fcc privacy rules and let companies sell your data" derpy derp thread. You can't have it both

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Bryan Fields
On 6/13/17 1:12 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > That excuse stopped being viable sometime in the last century. They know > exactly what they're doing, they're just counting on the prospective > gains to outweigh the prospective losses. If they're right, then the > spamming will not only continue, it w

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Mike Hammett
Overreact much? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Chuck Anderson" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 12:47:17 PM Subject: Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attend

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Mel Beckman
That still leaves the question: how to you invoke this financial punishment? Prohibit NANOG members from buying their products? -mel via cell > On Jun 13, 2017, at 10:12 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 03:31:46PM +, Mel Beckman wrote: >> Sometimes they're ignorant and

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Chuck Anderson
I've started keeping a list of companies who make unsolicited calls/emails. I tell them that I put them on my list of companies never to do business with. On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 01:12:07PM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 03:31:46PM +, Mel Beckman wrote: > > Sometimes th

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 03:31:46PM +, Mel Beckman wrote: > Sometimes they're ignorant and don't realize they're spamming. That excuse stopped being viable sometime in the last century. They know exactly what they're doing, they're just counting on the prospective gains to outweigh the prospec

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Mel Beckman
Rodney, My misunderstanding. Despite the subject line noting NANOG attendees, I interpreted your statement "It seems that more than just a few of us were spammed…” to be referring to the NANOG mailing list (“us”). I figured the spammer was signing up to the list first. As for the attendee list

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Rodney Joffe
> On Jun 13, 2017, at 8:31 AM, Mel Beckman wrote: > > Rodney, > > You said "I see something every couple of months that I can track back to > NANOG, or ARIN." > > I would hardly call this a flood. But my point is that most people posting to > NANOG, being technical people, respond to notific

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Mel Beckman
Rodney, You said "I see something every couple of months that I can track back to NANOG, or ARIN." I would hardly call this a flood. But my point is that most people posting to NANOG, being technical people, respond to notifications that they are spamming. Your example email illustrates this p

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Rodney Joffe
> On Jun 13, 2017, at 9:02 AM, Mel Beckman wrote: > > Rodney, > > What do you suggest? Shoot them at Dawn? :-) > > The standard warning and education has always been adequate in the past. We > don't have a runaway spamming problem on the list. What standard warning and education? We have f

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Mel Beckman
Rodney, What do you suggest? Shoot them at Dawn? :-) The standard warning and education has always been adequate in the past. We don't have a runaway spamming problem on the list. -mel beckman > On Jun 13, 2017, at 6:00 AM, Rodney Joffe wrote: > > It seems that more than just a few of us w

Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Rodney Joffe
It seems that more than just a few of us were spammed by Glenn Stern (gst...@calient.net), an employee of Calient following NANOG 70. The spammer had the balls to say, in his email: > > We do not know each other. I'm leveraging the attendee list for NANOG to > reach out and raise awareness of