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Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?
From: Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 16:16:22 +0000
Tom, Thanks for that pointer! apparently cogent has a history of abuse. -mel On Oct 2, 2023, at 8:34 AM, Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc> wrote: compliance () arin net<mailto:compliance () arin net> Refer back to an email John Curran sent to this list on Jan 6 2020 , "Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois" On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 11:29 AM Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org<mailto:mel () 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
Current thread:
- cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? John Sweeting (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Tom Beecher (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Jay Hennigan (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? John Sweeting (Oct 02)
- RE: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Tim Burke (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mark Tinka (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Matthew Petach (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mark Tinka (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mark Tinka (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Mel Beckman (Oct 02)
- Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? Tim Burke (Oct 02)