[194945] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Tue Jun 13 14:02:19 2017
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:02:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20170613174717.GE29294@angus.ind.wpi.edu>
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Overreact much?
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
Midwest-IX
http://www.midwest-ix.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Anderson" <cra@WPI.EDU>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 12:47:17 PM
Subject: Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees
I've started keeping a list of companies who make unsolicited
calls/emails. I tell them that I put them on my list of companies
never to do business with.
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 01:12:07PM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On
Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 03:31:46PM +0000, Mel Beckman wrote: > >
Sometimes they're ignorant and don't realize they're spamming. > >
That excuse stopped being viable sometime in the last century. They
know > exactly what they're doing, they're just counting on the
prospective > gains to outweigh the prospective losses. If they're
right, then the > spamming will not only continue, it will increase.
(As we've seen: > over and over and over again.) That's because they
don't care about > being professional or responsible or ethical: they
only care about profits. > > So the choice is clear: either make it
plain to such "people" (if I > may dignify sociopathic filth with that
term) that this is absolutely > unacceptable and that it will have
serious, immediate, ongoing negative > financial consequences, or do
nothing while the problem escalates > indefinitely. > > If you give
people the means to hurt you, and they do it, and > you take no action
except to continue giving them the means to > hurt you, and they take
no action except to keep hurting you, > then one of the ways you can
describe the situation is "it isn't > scaling well". > --- Paul
Vixie, on NANOG > > ---rsk
