Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread John Levine
In article <4f3e5d8d.60...@foobar.org> you write: >So, anyone else get spammed by Telx after posting to nanog? Yes. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly

RE: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> So, anyone else get spammed by Telx after posting to nanog? > > This is massively unprofessional. > > Nick Yep. I shot a complaint to customerserv...@telx.com. Assuming Mr. Fitzpatrick does not control that portion of the company, it may be of value for other recipients of his spam to do

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Justin M. Streiner said: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote: > >\o/ i got one too, i'll put a bunch of sales droids on this "George" from > >telx right away to make him an offer in return *grin* > > I did respond directly to him, and got a somewhat indignant respon

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Charles Mills
I've been getting voicemails from someone, leaving a first name only saying they have question that only I can answer. Dangling bait like that is a big red flag so they don't get a callback. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Justin M. Streiner < strei...@cluebyfour.org> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Mark Andrews wrote: I did respond directly to him, and got a somewhat indignant response back, stating that he had no idea what I was talking about and that my contact information had come from an "opt in email broker". It's going to be one of those days It's a little

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , "Justin M . Streiner" writes: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote: > > > \o/ i got one too, i'll put a bunch of sales droids on this "George" from > > telx right away to make him an offer in return *grin* > > I did respond directly to him, and got a somewhat indignant r

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Leigh Porter
No he didnt. The one he sent to me actually included part of the thread he picked me up from. I told him the most exciting thing he could do is to not spam me again. Poor guy, did nobody tell him? -- Leigh Porter On 17 Feb 2012, at 15:11, "Justin M. Streiner" wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012,

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Sven Olaf Kamphuis
we have something exitig happening at telx! we are now connected to the "backbone" through a 128kbit/s adsl line! -- Greetings, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, CB3ROB Ltd. & Co. KG = Address: Koloniestrasse 34 VAT Tax ID:

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Sven Olaf Kamphuis
needless to say their own website is slow as poo through a coffee filter :P reminds me of the isdn days :P -- Greetings, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, CB3ROB Ltd. & Co. KG = Address: Koloniestrasse 34 VAT Tax ID: DE2672

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: In other words he bought a list of leads. Possibly, albeit a poorly screened list of leads. jms On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: I did respond directly to him, and got a somewhat indignant response back, stating

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
In other words he bought a list of leads. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: > I did respond directly to him, and got a somewhat indignant response back, > stating that he had no idea what I was talking about and that my contact > information had come from an "opt in email

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Charles Mills wrote: I didn't even respond. I think many of these high-pressure-aggressive-types always have an answer like that conveniently vague enough as to give them an "out". I did mention to him that such tactics were likely to create a large group of people who w

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Charles Mills
I didn't even respond. I think many of these high-pressure-aggressive-types always have an answer like that conveniently vague enough as to give them an "out". On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote: > > \o/ i got one too, i'l

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote: \o/ i got one too, i'll put a bunch of sales droids on this "George" from telx right away to make him an offer in return *grin* I did respond directly to him, and got a somewhat indignant response back, stating that he had no idea what I was talk

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Grant Ridder
Ya, i got a message 2 days ago from them. It was very vague. Only 2 sentences. -Grant On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > So, anyone else get spammed by Telx after posting to nanog? >> >> This is massively unprofessional.

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Sven Olaf Kamphuis
\o/ i got one too, i'll put a bunch of sales droids on this "George" from telx right away to make him an offer in return *grin* (this is how you treat ppl trying to sell you something in an aggressive manner, you just have your people try to sell -them- something in return ;) On Fri, 17 Feb

Re: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Nick Hilliard wrote: So, anyone else get spammed by Telx after posting to nanog? This is massively unprofessional. Yep - just got one a few minutes ago. I was just getting ready to spin up my trolling-for-business-by-scraping-addresses-from-nanog-is-bad-mojo response.

RE: Spam from Telx

2012-02-17 Thread James Thomas
He has spammed by responding to posts that people have made in the past, he is still trolling I guess. James -Original Message- From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:n...@foobar.org] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 9:01 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Spam from Telx So, anyone else get spammed by