[100499] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT - spam from Choice Resale
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Ulevitch)
Wed Oct 24 17:30:12 2007
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:25:48 -0700
From: David Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net>
To: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
CC: Jenny Kuntz <jenny@choiceresale.com>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>,
cisco-nsp List <cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net>, sales@choiceresale.com
In-Reply-To: <BE59CF49-5A1B-48ED-BB82-36ED62B72212@semihuman.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Chris Woodfield wrote:
> Please be assured that thanks to this spam, Choice Resale will never be
> considered as a candidate for my network resale needs.
In this day and age, while perhaps unsolicited, it's far from the spam
that overwhelms my mail servers and annoys my users.
Often times when I get these (and it's pretty often) I just take their
email address and add it to my list of people we send out RFQs to. The
worst thing that happens is that they come back with a good price, good
service and boom, I've found a new vendor.
I'm not justifying the unsolicited email you got, but it's hardly a high
crime worthy of annoying Cisco-NSP and NANOG. Nor was it worthy of
trying to publicly shame somebody who might not know any better.
Bad netiquette isn't combated with more bad netiquette.
-David