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Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees


From: Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 05:28:37 +0000

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 <randy () psg com> wrote:

It seems that more than just a few of us were spammed by Glenn Stern
(gstern () 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 building long ago.  nanog has
become a trade show, for which this is normal behavior.  i expect mail
"stop by our booth at nanog 42," and so forth.

randy


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