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Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Seagraves)
Fri Jul 26 07:42:22 2013

From: Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav@humancapitaldev.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130725162027.122C415A@resin11.mta.everyone.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 06:42:02 -0500
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Jul 25, 2013, at 6:20 PM, "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com> =
wrote:

> I'd be interested in knowing who it is, so I can be sure to=20
> never buy from them.

This is the way to go. Spammers and telemarketers don't do what they do =
for fun or malice, they do so because it's profitable. If people would =
stop buying from them and boycott them instead, they would stop. Anyone =
who buys from a spammer or telemarketer is just as guilty of =
perpetuating the problem as those who are building spam botnets or =
abusing insecure PBXes.




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